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Storage Protect Family

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TSM admin expiration on managed servers

Based on functionality : The passwords for managed administrator has expired, but they are not prompted to change the password when logging into the managed Server It is explained here :http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21500509 But...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

connect tsm-users to an existing active-directory, not only "complex-passwd-delegation"

in tsm 6.3.4 we can connect the tsm-users to an active-directory. but on the active-directory i need a new full-access-delegated ou. and this new ou is only a workaround to have a complex-password-policy for tsm.i want to use the existing active-d...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support TSM 7.x on Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

The newest version of RHEL (v7) was released on June 10th 2014. Since this new version uses the xfs filesystem as default, and this filesystem offers up to 500TB filesystems out-of-the-box. In contrast even the newest versions of RHEL v6 (that is ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Better logging for node replication failures

When using node replication, and a replication process fails - it is very often hard to find the exact cause.It would be great, if the reason - or at least the node(s) and/or filespace(s), that caused the error would be logged in the TSM server ac...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL option limitation.

When initiating a full backup of all the databases, tdpsqlc.exe crashes with this error:ACO6205E The tdpsqlc command that was entered exceeds the maximum length limit. The length limit of each option is 1790 characters.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Is a defect

Add Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 to the list of supported Operating systems

We would like to have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) version 6 (Red Hat Compatible Kernel) added to the list of supported Operating Systems for Tivoli Storage Manager server on Linux x86_64. Please note that OEL provides two kernels. We are referri...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add options for type of ESX snapshot in TSMVE

Would like the ability to take non-quiesce snapshots with TSMVE in our ESX environment. I've been told snapping without an OS quiesce is a supported option in ESX and we'd like to be able to throw that flag for select VMs.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Ensure LAN_FREE when NEXTpool is used

In a situation where a customer sets up a policy so that data may go to 2 different storage pools, and uses the MAXSIZE parameter of a storage pool to determine where data is placed, the ability to access the 2nd storage via LAN_FREE is only deter...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Additional parameter for TSM BA client to specifically identify a given VM for backup.

The TSM BA client assumes that all VMs in a vSphere estate have unique names, and uses the VM's name as the only means of selecting an individual VM for backup. However, vSphere allows for multiple VMs to exist with the same name. This is particul...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Occupancy not reporting on objects stored in the TSM database

The Query Occupancy or Select from Occupancy commands do not report on backup objects stored within the TSM database.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration