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Storage Protect Family

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KeepAlive Option with TSM Client

Introduction of a keepalive functionality, e.g. by means of an adjustable parameter depending on timeout values set by firewall between client and server
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Request for 64Bit HSM Client Package for AIX System

We have installed 64Bit BAClient 6.2.2.0 in all AIX clients. There is a customer requirement to deploy HSM on 1000+ AIX Client.As per the PMR support we have downloaded the HSM pacakage CZGL7ML.tar.gz from passport advantage site. We tried to extr...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Problem on mapping multiple CIFS shares to perform snapdiff backups on a windows host

I have TSM 6.2 server running on Windows 2008 64bit and TSM 6.3 Client runing on VM (Windows 2008) for snapdiff backups
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

How to check last successful backup update on filespaces in TSM server for schedule running on sanpdiff

How to check the filespaces on node is updated with last successful backup date, when a node is associated with snapdiff backup schedule
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

UEFI support for TSM Fastback BMR

BMR recovery for servers using UEFI. The current work around is complex and is not meeting customer SLA. IBM and other competitors are using UEFI on all new server hardware.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for BMR 2 Not under consideration

Recovery Agent - Instant Restore - GPT Support

Recovery Agent currently supports only MBR disks for direct mount and instant restore. GPT disks should be supported as well, especially for instant restore. Direct GPT mount would be nice to have (no iSCSI).
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

An "estimator" on how much space would be returned by performing the TSM DB table space conversions.

An "estimator" on how much space would be returned by performing the TSM DB table space conversions. This would allow customers to determine the value of taking the outage to complete the activity.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Multiple Cache files for dedup

Multiple Cache files required for dedup:The customer has 1 piece of hardware with many db's on it, and because of cache lock, only 1 db can do client side dedup.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Exclude vRDM from BACKUP VM FULL

We would like to be able to backup full images of a VM while excluding the RDM (both pRDM & excluding vRDM). Basically i would like a similar option to VMPROCESSWITHPRDM except with vRDM instead of pRDM
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add ability for node replication to replicate via a SAN agent instead of IP

At Present Node Replication works by replicating data over IP. This limits is usefullness in most of our clients as whilst a percentage do have inter-site links, these are typically dedicated for SAN and there is little willingness to invest in ne...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration