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To have a progress of a scheduled job when scheduled through the Vmware Plugin.

I would like to be able to view the progress of each guest as it is getting backed up when the job is scheduled. If the job is selected to "run now" then it works. If I select schedule then there is no progress bar. Every other backup software doe...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Support for running TSM Server on Windows Server 2012

Hi need support for installing TSM on Windows Server 2012.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

tdposync with script

Since migration to version 6.3.0, we are no more able to use tdposync in script because password is request on concole or terminal. Many Oracle DB is hosted in our Data Centers and cleanup TSM with RMAN Catalog can be a heavy load if this opportin...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Planned for future release

Doc to install Agent ITM for TSM server to HACMP

We want to install the agent ITm TSM server on HACMP cluster.We find no documentation on the product. This is very urgent
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Selectively install filesets with Auto Deployment or install only Filesets already deployed

The ability to select which filesets are installed during auto deployment. For security and system resource reasons, we install only features that will be used for each TSM Client. Auto deployment installed Hdw, HdwSnp, Image, and NAS when upgradi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

Match return codes with documentation

Currently there is a disparity in the documentation vs the actual behaviour. As such I would like to see this recitified.I would like, that the following be changed in so that the 'return code 4 explanation is as follows: "The operation completed ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

FCM for tdpsql can't work with multiple dsm.opt files

There is no command-line option nor any other option/possibility to tell FCM for tdpsql (6.4.0.0) to use the settings from a specific dsm.opt. In previous versions this was possible using the deprecated tdpsql.exe GUI, however by deprecating this ...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Customizing FCM TDP MSSQL Configuration files

Please include possibility for customzing locations of TDP for MSSQL configuration files (.cfg + .opt) at MMC console of FileCopyManager. For example as on TSM Baclient with environment variables.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Tivoli FCM individual mail box restore problem

restore the mail box with it's locale rather then change the locale setting of the exchange server everytime.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection. vCloud director creates resource pools for each "org" or client/LOB. vCloud places the vCloud managed VM's in those resource pools.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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