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ITM TSM 6.3 application support suppoted on zlinux ITM TEMS, TEPS servers

Customer has existing ITM V6 environment with ITM TEMS, TEPS servers running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (s390x) or zlinux. Customer has existing ITM Tivoli Data Warehouse....Customer to install ITM application support for ITM TSM 6.3 agent...

TSM support enhancement for version 5.5: client, server and storageagent in relation to TSM version 6.3

Our main GSE Installation-Base are already on version 5. Some Costumers has Problems with the upgrade to version 6. To establish a more sophisticated upgrade plan we want to establish a longer Support cycle of version 5 over 31.12.2012
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Solaris 11 Support for TSM v.6.2 Client

The RFE would require TSM v.6.2 client to be supported in Solaris 11 platform officially and compatible without any issue.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Converting client nodes for store operations on a target replication server

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for WindowsVersion 6.3 Administrator's Guide Chapter 32. Replicating client node data p.991 Converting client nodes for store operations on a target replication server (orginal)1. On the source replication server, issue ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Tivoli Storage Manager 6.2.3 changed the Spectralogic library fo mixed media requiring an 8 character barcode

We are all LTO tape shop. Our Spectra T series libraries are configured to see only 6 barcode characters. This is due to a legacy requirement of other libraries only reading 6 characters. As we'vre moved on to new libraries, we have kept the same ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

backup stgpool improvements

Backup storage pool sometimes is 'hanging' waiting for a tape still in use. That causes issues with the replication, since the next backup storage pool won't run in the next day, because previous one is still running waiting for a tape for the las...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Backup And Restore Oracle Database Using GUI

kindly it is requested for development to backup and restore oracle database using GUI which gives you more easier jobs than command lines.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Delivered

Recovery mailbox EXCHANGE

The feature exists, but don´t work correctly. TDP EXCHANGE don´t work fine and in several situations we aren´t able to recovery mailboxes. The tools designed don´t work as expected
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

TDP rebinding of all inactive backups to new management class

When management class changes for TDP backups TDP will rebind all previous backups to the new management class. This is opposite to TSM file level behaviour. Backups that have long retention like 7 years would all be lost by simple management clas...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

Single Item Restore - Security Risk

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager must be operating in an account with membership in the Organization Management group. You must also have local Administrator privilege.For Mailbox Restore and Mailbox Restore Browser operations, membership in t...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered