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Estimate button

Why do you have deleted on new ba client versions the button ESTIMATE? I need it, please...Thanks a lot
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Use SSH keys linked to a user account to allow scripting to be developed without specifying account passwords in the code.

Use SSH keys linked to a user account to allow scripting to be developed without specifying account passwords in the code.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the MOVE DATA and RECLAIM STG commands

A version 6 server doing dedup presents new challenges to the admin to manage the server's storagepools. These enhancements will enable the admin to target whole volume operations to achieve maximum thruput. Improve the volume selection for both i...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change node deduplication to none with in a diskpool

Instead of having to assign a client to a separate pool that does not have deduplication enabled, an option should be available to set a node's deduplication field to none example: Update node <nodename> deduplication=none
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM Archive from Incremental

HelloI wan to suggest , an ARCHIVE to be made from the Daily incremental backup.Many customers want to run specific archive for specific folder .Since the data is ALREADY backed up via the daily incremental backup , it will be wise to "copy" the d...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

XFS support with TDP for VMware

The TDP for VMware agent should support the XFS file system in addition to ext2, ext3, and ReiserFS.Why? XFS is a filesystem that allows more performant support of large data stores. It is part of RHEL and SLES.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Re-Map Volume Location

It would be beneficial to be able to offline a volume in a storage pool, for example your backuppool. Then at the OS level be able to manually move or copy the volume to a new physical location, log back into the TSM service and run a update vol t...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Request for Live Partition Mobility (LPM) support for TSM

Customer would like TSM to support LPM support.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

No ANR0504I message, or different message, when the file wasn't restored properly

The ANR0504I message is logged even when the restore/retrieve fails. For example: Jul 10 23:19:21 lxtsm052 dsmserv-TSM52: ANR0406I Session 2601887 started for node AISDBP_ORA (TDPO Linux86-64) (Tcp/Ip dbsrvd217.cern.ch (22144)). (SESSION: 2601887)...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enable multiple dsmc processes to share the client dedupe cache.

Client options for VCS on Linux should provide clusterdisksonly and clusternode parms (Linux client should have parity with Windows MSCS options).
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration