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Storage Protect Family

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move nodedata by backup date

I would like to have the option to use the MOVE NODEDATA command with a selection of a range of backup dates. As it is today the finest selection is based on the filespace, but inside the filespace there are several backup dates, that could be sel...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

query mount enhancements

It would be very nice to have some enhancements to query mount like q mount LIBNAME--> show all mounts within the library q Mount LIBNAME showall=yes--> show all drives and mount state relating to the library
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Operations Center - Completed Tasks Duration

Operations Center provides a user friendly GUI allowing TSM administrators to easily manage their TSM environment
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Prevent reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES to kill restore tasks

Whenever a reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES finishes, restore of SQL data fails. Disabling reorg for this DB is not practical, since restore tasks are starting up 24/7, and the tsm admin does not know when. Some other tool must be present to prevent t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Use TDP4HANA without ssh connections

Please change installation routine for TDP4HANA so setup.sh script does not require ssh connection to be able to work. Ideally you want to have the option if you want to use ssh to run remote commands (on remote or local hosts) or is you want to r...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

Client Side de-dupe when LAN Free backup on disk using GPFS

Ability to enable to client side data deduplication functionality in case of LAN free backup on disk in GPFS environment.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 3 Not under consideration

Reporting Enhancements for TSM4VE environment

With TSM version 6.3.5 the rename filespace command is not supported anymore. This feature provided to us possibility of having a clear separation of active and expired(decomissioned) VMware virtual machine filespaces.We also used for monitoring a...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

DataStore Free Space Check Before Creating Snapshot

TSMVE Should check Free Space on VMware Data Store Before creating a snapshot. If there is low space on Datastore then Snapshot can cuase the Datastore to go out of diskspace and unstable the VM's on that Datastore
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Repackage the Visual C++ installer to install to same folder as TSM Client during installation to avoid conflict with apps

We need the TSM Client to install its VC++ component into a different directory than the default common/shared directory that other apps use. This is so that when we install or upgrade the tsm client, it does not upgrade the shared VC++ that other...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

FILE volume locking

During the migration or stgpool backup of a FILE class storage pool, the process will 'hang' when it encounters a locked volume. The volume will remain locked if there is a long-running backup session or the client does not terminate correctly. If...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration