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Install Anywhere problem: Aborted installation cant be started again (HP/UX)

An Aborted installation can be started again, but wont finish correctly. this document does not help as well, as the scripts dont work without JAVA_HOME beeing set.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21395154 Need working documentatio...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Delivered
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Request for TSM to handle different retentions for Virtual Environments

To be able to perform Incremental forever backups using different retentions (such as daily, monthly and anually). Currently, TSM for VE cannot use the same set of backups to assign different retentions. Only one management class is possible.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Delivered

TDP for SQL tail-log backup NORECOVERY option

In MS SQL it is possible to do a log backup with option NORECOVERY. It will take the database into restoring state to prevent any changes being made to the database after the tail of the log has been backed up. This document describes some scenari...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases Delivered

Option to start DSMSERV in "standalone" or "maintenance" mode

I would like to be able to start DSMSERV with an option that disables reclamation, administrative schedules, expiration and client sessions. I know it it possible to disable reclamation, expiration and administrative schedules by editing the dsmse...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

Service user role should be able to execute dmp (recommended action)

The V7000 service user role should be able to execute dmp (dynamic maintenance procedure) or recommended action in the GUI. Other user roles like "admin" or "secure admin" has to many other rights. Client's request a stricter definition of the use...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Storwize V7000 Microcode Update behavior

Change the Storwize V7000 microcode update behavior. The client should be able to decide by his own how long the delay between a node upgrade should be during a microcode upgrade. Without using the manual V7000 upgrade procedure. Therefore it shou...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Use TDPOSYNC with control file

The TDPOSYNC utility is used in conjunction with an RMAN catalog to clear out oracle backup objects that have been orphaned in the TSM Server. Oracle RMAN can also use a control file to store this information, instead of the RMAN catalog. However,...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases Delivered

Default setting for EasyTier should be "On" rather than "auto"

By default, Easy Tier is set to "auto" which means that when SSDs are added to a pool, at that point a dpa_heat file is created and data migration takes place. The dpa_heat file can be used in conjunction with the Storage Tier Advisor Tool to dete...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

disable the disk signatures when doing the install of the data movers for TSM VE

When a customer installs TSM VE on a vStorage Backup Server for Windows using the SAN mode (i.e. data store LUNs zoned to vStorage Backup Server), the customer suggests that the install wizard tells the user that it will disable automatic disk sig...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Delivered

ATAP driver support for RHEL 6.4

Customer migrating TSM servers to RHEL 6.4 and require ATAP support on this OS.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

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