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Storage Protect Family

Dedup info command

A tool for information of the status of DedupQ DEDUPlike 'sh dedupdeleteinfo' witch is a undocumented one
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Planned for future release

Backup client for SAP HANA

There is a need to develop a real backup solution for SAP HANA. As it is today all backups are done on a full-backup base from files. Since the database can be quite large this is a problem.
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Planned for future release

Dsmserv commands need date/time stamps

All output from stand-along dsmserv commands should be prefixed with date/time stamps.� It would be nice to be able to easily calculate how long something like a restore db takes.
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Planned for future release

Specify an output file for stand-alone dsmserv commands

Specify an output file for stand-alone dsmserv commands such as the dsmserv restore db command so that the output can be saved for review later. Currently can�t do this, not even with the redirection character �>�.� Documentation is always a go...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Planned for future release

Provide strong authentication between TSM Server and TEC applications

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Server application should be able to provide strong authentication to Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) application, in order to provide security between both TSM and TEC servers and also to attend the ITCS 104 secti...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Planned for future release

More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Planned for future release

Update KSK SCHEDULE attribute group to allow schedule failures/misses to be monitored in ITM

The ability to create 'Pure' monitoring situations against the KSK SCHEDULE attribute group to allow for situations to fire when a node's scheduled backup execution results in a terminal condition (i.e. Failed or Missed). Currently, if a situation...
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) Planned for future release

Need TSM Client 6.3 and 64-bit API support in Sysback

We use Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery (aka Sysback) to backup and restore rootvg for our AIX servers. Sysback has always required the TSM Client 32-bit API for operation. Beginning with TSM Client 6.3, there will no longer b...
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery Planned for future release

Create fixlets for TSM version upgrades

Would like for Tivoli to provide Tivoli Endpoint patch management fixlets to upgrade TSM clients to new versions.
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Planned for future release

When schedule is missed the database still shuts down

Just to clarify: the issue occurs when the window is missed because the client cannot communicate with the STORServer server (network issue, or STORServer server is down etc.) We consider this to be a flaw because (as you can see in the attached l...
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Planned for future release

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