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Search results: Storage Protect Family

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Enhancing TMS4VE vCloud support to select destination datastore/datastore cluster in restore wizard

Implementing a dialogue to select destination datastore/datastore cluster when resoring a vApp with showing up the status enough or not enough space available like RFE 47160.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Intoducing datastore clusters in TSM4VE incl. status in initating restore process

Providing the datastore cluster name when recovering a vm in a vcenter environment. Implementing a dialog drill down to select datastore cluster or datastore with displaying available space. There should also be status symbol for enough or not eno...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add "browse" support for fields in the VM Restore Destination dialog box in the BA Client "Restore VM" function.

The current dialog box in the TSM BA cient for selecting the destination parameters when restoring a VM to an alternate location (Restore to "Following location") do not provide any lookup or "browse" capability, requiring the user to remember and...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

how to identify "local" nodes in "q n"

e need to list only "normal" nodes on a server that also acts as a replication target. "Q Node" shows all nodes, i could not find a parameter to filter for local nodes only. How can we list local nodes only, for example to check if these nodes are...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

DOMAIN option to use with selective backup and archive

The TSM client option "DOMAIN" should be applicable for Selective backup and Archives.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Delete selective export vol from volhist

Currently if i make mistake and create an export node with wrong domain, i need to delete node to turn the tape back to scratch. There is no way currently to selectively remove an bad export vol from a list of valid export nodes.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

new authority class "QUERY" for query and select privilege

In order to restrict the query and select commands for all the administrators having only client owner authority I put "QUERYAuth<br /> Storage" in dsmserv.opt. In order to monitor the server activity, I    have defined the ad...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Maintenance Window in Bachup Schedules

The ability to schedule a maintenance window for client schedules would be very helpfull. Currently there are only two methods: expiration of a schedule or deassociation of a schedule. Both methods have the downside that replanning needs manual in...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Replace DEFAULT with actual management class name in reporting.

The default management class is always shown as DEFAULT in SELECT * from BACKUPS reports rather than the actual class name which would be more useful in determining what the retention periods are for a given set of backup files, whereas with defau...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration