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BA/API client: Call 'vssadmin list writers' only when necessary

Spectrum Protect Client (BA/API) V8.1.0.0 on Windows unconditionally calls 'vssadmin list writers'.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Re-instate prereq check script in 7.1 install

In the 6.3 installation tar file there was a pre-req check script. This is no longer available in 7.1. please re-instate the functionality
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM aware of VTLs features (dedup and replication)

Copying client data using node replication requires a lot of bandwidth and many customers don´t want to use TSM dedup since they already have dedup atVTL levels (protectier and datadomain). It would be great if TSM server could be aware of VTL rep...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM4VE - scheduling and tagging at VM granularity

Can we remove the following limitation ?Customer would like to use TAGGING at VM level, not at FOLDER level, without changing or replanning the whole VMs infrastructures.He would like to tag & schedule some VM to daily backup, some other (may ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) - SP for VE support

My customer has deployed a new vCenter on Amazon Web Services, using VMWare on Cloud (VMC) as hypervisor. They are already migrating onpremise production machines to this environment, but even following KB https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/10...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Periodic Backup of Backed up Data (Monthlies etc)

If a TSM administrator needs to take periodic, i.e. weekly, monthly, half year, year end additional copies of data other than 'file/unstructured' the administrator must currently create additional schedules to take additional copies. A lot of envi...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

modify mmsetquota to have --reset option

We have received the subject pmr here in Spectrum Scale Level2. I read the request and It seems that customer is requesting a function similar to "mmedquota -t <fileset> --reset" ?? --resetWith this option, when grace time is modified, all r...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TSM replication process duration

I think a duration parameter will be great with the replication process of TSM. Duration also exist with expiration, reclamation so why not implement this also with replication
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

If TSM hasn't got Full backup of SQL DB, raise Diff/log backup to Full

Now when a 'tdpsqlc backup diff' backup runs for a SQL db instance only DB's with existing Full backup are backed up. DB's that have just been created will make the schedule that starts the backup fail with an error in the tdpsqlc log like this: "...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM Image Backup of encrypted Guardium FS (secfm)

Current Situation and urgent request for enhancement: In our customer environment and according projects encryption services for a Filesystems or Databases are introduced on a regular basis. TSM as our backup suite therefore needs the ability to h...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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