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When using dedup, occupancy tables show wrong information

When using dedup, occupancy tables shows less space being used, than what is actually being used. This is described here:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21614080"Occupancy size discrepancy with deduplication"This poses a big probl...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

B/A Client installation impact TIMTAM application

When the B/A client is installed it removes current gsk installation (in our case GSK7) and install its GSK8 package.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

SAN Volume Controller SVC - Individual Accountability (SYS4984)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

VMware backup reporting in TCR

Tivoli Common Reporting.Client is unable to have a view of each VM which is being backed up.Clients require a full detailed report of VM's being backed up within the TCR tools.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM and T10kD drive compatibility

Hi, is there a planned release date for tape drive T10kD compatibility with TSM ?Is there an early adopter program fo test of this drive with tsm? Thank you Daniele
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM v6.x Files & Directories omit the the world writable bit for security reasons (SYS4956)

Files:/opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/_installPgms/Db2idrop.sh/opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/license/nodelock.db2 Directories:/tsminst1/ARC_log/archmeth1/tsminst1/ARC_logf/failarchWe would like confirmation from Tivoli TSM development that the permissions on these files...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Fastback support for Exchange 2013

Add support for Microsoft Exchange 2013.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 2 Delivered

TSM Server restores from physical library instead of Virtual one

TSM Server restores from physical library instead of Virtual one. This is due to TSM looks in the pools which needs less mount points to restore the files. This is a big problem for restoring files because our customer has set up lanfrees against ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TDP for Database Oracle and BA Client Compatibility for Oracle Linux

Actualy the Oracle Linux operation system are not listed as compatible for TDP for Database Oracle and BA Client.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

native access on TSM db2

On TSM Server 6.3.X as in TSM server 6.2.X:<br /><br />By external hosts over tsm server, give native access on db2 in read-only mode
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered