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TSM for Virtual Environment and Vmware Site Recovery Manager Place holder VM's

TSM for virtual Environment is unable to recognize Vmware Site Recovery Manager ‘s Place holder VM's. TSM For VIrtual Envionrment is unable to recognizANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine ''. TSM function name : __ns2__CreateSnap...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SP Recovery Agent Session Selection Saving

When you utilize "IBM Spectrum Protect Recovery Agent" and configure a "New IBM Spectrum Protect server ..." under the "IBM Spectrum Protect Server" section, it will override any previously configured servers (removes any previously configured ser...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Oracle Linux OS support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle

Client asks about official support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle, installed on Oracle Linux x64
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Also Implement DAR on TSM Server CLI

Currently DAR is implemented on the TSM Web Client Interface only. Individual file restores done from the TSM Server CLI do not utilize DAR. This causes additional overhead during a restore process of the entire image being scanned and if large en...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Add warnning message for Filesystem NFS excluded from Backup in option "all-local"

We use the "Client option set" to make a backups for a group of servers. When we use the domain "All-local" and specify a NFS Filesystem in a "Include" statement, the TSM Server doesn't show a message warnning reporting that are exclude of backup.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Option to modify updated weekdays and weekend in spectrum protect

We are located in UAE and here weekdays and weekend are different what is defined in the spectrum protect server . I want to update weekdays and weekend definition in the system according to this region . like mentioned below. Weekdays = Sunday, M...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

GPFS: removed files by mmbackup wont reported by tsm

Although mmbackup is removing files because of incorrect encoding TSM Backup archive client is reporting successful backup.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

audit drive DRIVE vol=NAME or audit vol ... drive=DRIVE

i would be very nice to have a audit drive DRIVE vol=VOL or audit vol ... drve=DRIVE command. It's often necessary to explicit check a tape drive and there is no command to do this.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TS3500 (3584) time synchronization (NTP)

We have a TS3500 Tape Library and we can not set the date & time synchronization to the company's internal NTP server, there is no such option on the Web-based Administration Interface.Please give us an advice how to do this or please enhance ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Add dsmGroupHandler calls for archive objects, or a way to retrieve the last written ObjID

dsmGroupHandle() API calls are only implemented for backup type of objects.There is only a comment in the manual saying that this can be done in other ways using archives, but no examples? The dsmEndTxn() API calls, returns the groupLeaderObjId, w...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration