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Storage Protect Family

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SNAPDIFF with QTREE Support

NDMP backup does not support qtree data structure. I have two customer who has about 20TB today and will grow to 40TB and would like to utilize this function.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Incremental forever for Databases

Would like to see if it is possible to have incremental forever capability with the SQL and Oracle TDP. Hard to pitch the idea of TSM being an incremenal forever solution , exept for Database scenarios.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

IBM AIX SAS HBA support with HP branded LTO Tape drives.

We tried qualifying HP LTO5 & 6 SAS drives in our labs with AIX 6.1 & 7.1, but the OS would hang when we tried to discover them. No issue getting it to work with HP LTO FC drives, but fails wtih SAS drives using the IBM AIX SAS HBA.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

No Warning Message in Actlog when TSM Storage Agent reaches max sessions limit

If a Storage Agent reaches his MaxSessions Limit, a ANRXXXW should appear in activity-log.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

backup incremental for all the VSS writers

When we proceed to an systemstate backup, only the System Writer backup is incremental, the others VSS backup are Full (ex.: WDS). in that way, Tthe backup increase very fast.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - Disable Disk Management access to sahed LUNs

To enable SAN transport method to be used by vStorage Backup Server (the datamover) VM backups, one must share the same LUNs used by the pool of host servers with the vStorage Backup Server. Extra care has to observed because if the datamover serv...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

In TDP for Mail v6.4 for Exchange, my customer refuse to see the data of the email when he use the Recovery by object view.

In TDP for Mail v6.4 for Exchange, my customer refuse to see the data of the email when he use the Recovery by object view.It is blocked by the security service. The data of the email is private.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Flag to not provide tivoli header messages with select statements.

A possible flag to be included on dsmadmc to NOT respond with the tivoli header messages about the server/client release information.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Space Management IPv6 support

SONAS is a strategic product for our customer. Customer has a need to install IPv6. So SONAS will support IPv6 in the near future all the involved components must support IPv6. One of these components is TSM Space Management. Therefore TSM Space M...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Domino 32bit Support on 64bit Windows

TSM Support for TSM server 6.3/6.4 Windows and TSM for Mail (Domino) : Support for Domino 32 bit on 64bit Windows (2008/2008R2)(Last listet for TDP Mail version 5.5.2)
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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