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Storage Protect Family

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TDP - Set INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS Globally

On the datamover, INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is used to allow fallback to a non-quiesced snapshot if the initial quiesce fails. Currently this option must be set on a per-VM basis. There should be an option to set this globally.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

DISABLE SESSIONS command enhancement

As discussed in the TSM Administrator's Guide, under certain circumstances it is useful to be able to run a TSM server in single-user, standalone mode. For example, in a disaster recovery situation this is usually essential during the initial stag...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

VM "self-defined" backup using VM custom attributes

Many large IT organization are performing VM backups in a multi-tenant environment. In those complex environments, the VM naming convention cannot always be fixed by the IT and thus, backup setup rules thru the VM name (wildmask filters, host sele...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM BA Client Support for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Latest TSM BA Client fails to install on Mac OS X 10.11. Support stops at 10.10.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 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...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Synchronize policy information to another SP server

There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

tivoli storage manager ba client for Linux on POWER Little Endian support

as of v 7.1.2 only the tsm API supports Linux on Power little endian. We are hoping to backup clients running this configuration
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Documentation fix for TSM for VMware and iSCSI Linux Restore

Enhance documentation regarding 5c in the documentation belowManually configuring an iSCSI device on a Linux systemhttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/#!/SS8TDQ_7.1.2/com.ibm.itsm.ve.inst.doc/t_ve_cfg_mountiscsi.html Customer are ONLY pr...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Clength limit of each option is 1790 characters

Customer needs to use the command line for some restores and faces the error bellow: Failed - Error: RC: 1924 ACO6205E The tdpsqlc command that was entered exceeds the maximum length limit.The length limit of each option is 1790 characters.exists
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Client can get info about nodes he has no access being granted to

Issuing a "q fi -fromnode=xyz" from the dsmc command line, lists all filespaces from ANY node that is defined in the tsm servers poliy domain. This should only work for those nodes, the requesting node has been granted access to.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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