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Timestamps for TDP Logs

I would like to see a date and timestamp in the logs generated by TDP. Right now, the data about number of files backed up and such floods the logs and isn't very helpful when trying to determine the progress of a backup.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

ANS1115W with snapdiff option

ANS1115W warning when excluded directoy are scanned with snapdiff method.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Better management of VMs which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

Better management of VMs which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention - TSM should not backup files which were just restored (most recent version) by TSM, on next incremental.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Space management - reconciliation preview

The reconciliation command (dsmhsmclc) in TSM for Space Management (Windows) has an option (reconcilemode=emulation) to preview the results of running reconciliation on a filesystem without actually deleting any objects from the TSM server. The eq...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Integrate AD for user authentication in ESS

Currently the Storage Team uses root to log into the ESS I/O nodes and EMS but it would be nice to set them to integrate with Active Directory for non-root users. We assume other customers use AD for authentication on their EMS and I/O nodes.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

Support TSM Sysback for VIO Servers

Currently the only way to take a backup of a VIO server is by using the backupios command. We use Sysback (Tivoli Storage Manager for Sysback Backup and Recovery) for all of our AIX hosts. We would like to use the same product for our VIO servers....
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

DB2 Snapshot Support for Linux One on A9000

We'd require support for Flashcopy Manager support for DB2 on LinuxOne so that this can be governed via Copy Data Manager.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

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