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TSM FOR VE ( for vmware) option to exclude drives when performing Virtual Machine backups

Within tsm for VE , would need an option to exclude specific disks ( vmware esx vmdk ) .By exclude I mean ( do not backup the data in those containers ) but backup the metadata , so that they would be recreated during VM restore ( but empty )
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 7 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 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

GUI diplay of Nodes should be sorted ny Node name rather than NODE ID.

When the nodes for a cluster are displayed though the GUI, they are sorted by Node ID within an IO group instead of physical placement in the cluster. . The Node ID changes every time a node is shutdown and/or removed & re-added to the cluster...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Tivoli TDP for ERP for Oracle: Support for RHEL 6

TDP for ERP (Oracle) should be enhanced to support installations running on RHEL 6.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 7 Delivered

TSM provides an interface/function to drive a scsi VERIFY command to a tape

The customer is looking for a way within TSM to verify data on tape is still valid. They would like to be able to invoke the VERIFY tape scsi command via TSM to check tapes periodically over time. They plan to write data to tape and want to verify...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

SVC Support for Windows NTP Service

Currently SVC and V7000 is not compatible with NTP-service provided by windows-operatingsystem (windows server 2008 R2). Requested feature should support the NTP service of Windows. BTW, DS8000 and Brocade SAN switches supports this already.
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server

It would be helpful if a TSM server could direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server, either temporarily or permanently. Currently we have to change a TSM configuration file on a client server (dsm.opt) to change its default or find how ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 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...
over 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 ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

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