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Storage Protect Family

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Storage pool Protect query

The Protect command In Spectrum Protect writes data to a target storage pool. There is no way to display the 'protected' data that resides in the target pool. Something like Q OCC PROTECT nodename/stgpoolname . And it would also be nice to know ah...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Snapdifferntial backups for Netapp data on tap cluster mode (c-mode)

Tivoli Storage Manager Backup/Archive ClientNetapp Filer CIFS and NFS share backups.Currently Netapp snapshot functionality can be used by TSM to perform snap differential backups. This is particularly useful for large file systems with millions o...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

Fix Label Libvolume to report failure when encountering errors instead of failing to work yet reporting Success.

Label Libvolume processes can encounter errors but report Completed Successfully
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Increase the command history buffer in dsmadmc to WAY more than 20.

The command history feature (up arrow) in the dsmadmc and dsmc command line interfaces has been limited to 20 previous commands for over 25 years. Assuming that this was some sort of memory limitation in the distant past, can you please increase t...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

enhanced charging to support compressed/uncompress volume

Today:- It is possible to measure data on different levels on the TSM Server- SELECT * FROM FILESPACES Can be used to see the allocated and used space on filesystems on the clients But does not give correct results on databases, as both CAPACITY a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Include and Exclude files and disks

A customer would like to have an option where they can include and exclude file and disks from backup. It should be easily available via GUI.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

DP for Exchange GUI behaviour

We would like to have a few improvements in the DP for Exchange GUI.How the GUI bahaves during restore operations.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Policy based purge of defunct nodes and data

Today, if you need to purge a node from the environment because it has been retired or no longer needed, one waits for the data t age through its retention policy, then delete fi (of any active data remaining) and then remove node. This process is...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Provide detailed sizing guidelines for DB sizing with 7.1.3 deduplication

Current product documentation includes TSM DB sizing guidelines without deduplication, and there are instructions for old TSM dedupe DB impact at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21596944. The impact of deduplication is much lower ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

TSM in native P7 compatibility mode

We are purchaseing p720 servers as our TSM servers. We want to be able to use POWER7™ in POWER7™ compatibility mode.​​ Currently if using POWER7™ it needs to be in POWER6™ compatibility mode.​​
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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