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Storage Protect Family

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Cancel TSM Admin Schedules/Scripts

Introducing the ability to cancel an administrative schedule or a script rather than having to manually cancel all of the processes a schedule/script might create. For this to work, would most likely need the introduction of a script/schedule id t...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM support enhancement for version 5.5: client, server and storageagent in relation to TSM version 6.3

Our main GSE Installation-Base are already on version 5. Some Costumers has Problems with the upgrade to version 6. To establish a more sophisticated upgrade plan we want to establish a longer Support cycle of version 5 over 31.12.2012
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

For a CLI restore node command allow the filelist file to have over 1,000 entries. ANR4948E is currently the error returned.

Create a new system parameter, say MAXLISTEN, which can default to 1000 for maximum lines in a file list file for a restore node request; but is client modifiable say up to 100000 or even more
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

ACL restores @ single file restore

In case of a single file restore, the Windows Explorer do not allow to copy ACLs in a normal copy-and-paste operation.So it is needed to use a 3rd party product (xcopy, robocopy,..) to "copy" the files from backup to productive location. This is i...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Adaptive Subfile Backup support larger file sizes

Increase the maximum file size supported by SubFile backup. We have customers using TSM to backup outlook.ost files and archive*.pst files. The file size is over the 2GB limit of Adaptive Subfile Backup, but we have many of these files and they ch...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TCPPort LISTEN limit to single service ip addresses

In the dsmserv.opt should be an option added to set the specified TCPPort listen only on a few single ip addresses and not on all, like now. netstat -an | grep LISTEN...tcp4 0 0 *.1501 *.* LISTEN...This security issue occur if you run more then on...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Long Waiting for access on FDEVC during Migration

During migration i file is in use by a client backup session. Migration is waiting until the file is mountable for the process. it takes very very long:Waiting for access to input volume /tsmstg2/tsm152/0000CB96.BFS (24108 seconds). This can be al...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM.

Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM. DD Boost, formerly called Data Domain Boost Software, enables part of the deduplication effort to be offloaded to the backup client server. DD Boost is now integrated with EMC NetWorker as well as wit...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

TSM to issue a "retryable" error code to RMAN to avoid loosing the session

Enhandmente for the API between RMAN and TSM: problem: if TSM issues an error Oracle closes the session and does not try again; suggestion: TSM to return a retryable error code to Oracle. Oracle then can retry the backup on another channel. Limita...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 4 Not under consideration