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Client Schedule Log Date/time Stamp

I am requesting the ability of the TSM client to include the date/time stamp on each line of the schedule log when the TSM client is invoked from a script instead of a TSM schedule.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Provide a means for restoring the TSM DB without having a copy of the volume history file on hand.

There needs to be a way of recovering the TSM DB by specifying which tape to recover from. This would be similar to what was available in V5 with;> dsmserv restore db volumenames={volume_id} devc={tapedevclass} commit=yes
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Error messages for clearly incorrect include-exclude rules etc.

I've often noticed our users having trouble with exclude rules and I was wondering if you could put in some basic error reporting. Errors reported on-screen as soon as the TSM GUI is run would be ideal, as already happens with the message "ANS1036...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

'dsmcutil updatepw' returns same message for locked node and incorrect password

Our TSM for Windows installer needs to check in with all nine of our backup servers when it runs on a client machine, in order to configure the TSM client software correctly. It then saves the correct tcpserveraddress and tcpport into dsm.opt for ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Remove "Autorun.inf" from Install Package

Please remove "Autorun.inf" from the LanguagePack_xxx Folder of install packages. (ex. 6.1.5.1-TIV-TSMFB-FP001.zip) Some Anti Virus software(*) detect this file, "Autorun.inf", as a threat, and block reading the file. (*) For example, Symantec End...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Delivered

TSM support for backing up VMWare vCloud Director

Looking for TSM support for backing up VMWare vCloud Director.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Remote install (deploy) method missing for ITM agent for TSM 6.3

I was unable to add the ITM Agent for TSM6.3 to the agent depot on the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server (TEMS) and perform a remote installation with commands and messures provided by ITM.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Delivered

Tivoli Administrationi Center 6.2.0: navegation in comandline option does store previously executed commands

Tivoli Administrationi Center 6.2.0: navegation in comandline option does store previously executed commands;
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Delivered

Backup endtime not available in TEPS-Console (through ITM-MOSWOS-Agent for TSM)

Backup ENDTIME-ENDDATE not available in TEPS-Console (through ITM-MOSWOS-Agent for TSM)
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Update the behavior of space allocation when using DEVCLASS type FILE , when more than 1 directory is specified

The file based device class allows user to specify more than 1 directory as destination to store TSM volumes. When you specify more than 1 directory, spread over multiple file system, you can have error message reported (ANR8785E) saying that we'r...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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