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Storage Protect Family

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Assign multiple datamover to a single vapp

For large vapps, one dm is not enough. It should be possible to assign multiple datamovers to one vapp (or multiple datamovers per vdc)
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Restore single vm from vapp

Select a single vm from a vapp that should be restored. Either as a new vapp, or import to an existing. Must be available from the web gui.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Enable TSM API to access/process TSM backup client contents

We are going to implement the API to automate the commands "query backup" and "restore" as a web service with unicode support. Unfortunately, this task can't be completed successfully, although we orient on the code that was provided with the SAMP...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install?
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

TSM OC DRM Support

The Administration Center is aging and outdated. The Admin Center is only supported in UNSUPPORTED browsers (Firefox 3.6) or outdated browsers (IE 8). The Operations Center looks to be its replacement. Functionality of the OC however is very lacki...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM System State incremental backups

If technically possible, please consider adding additional incremental forever capability to system state backups. Currently it is my understanding that only objects included with the system writer are able to use a an incremental strategy. Object...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Dilligent tsm integration

Hi, i think it would be very nice to have a better dilligent tsm integration. It should be very nice to have client side deduplication with dilligent as primary stgp pools.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include ulimit requirements to TSM init script

During reboot of linux systems, init scripts inherits kernel default settings for open files (ulimit -n).    These will be too small, and give warnings in tsm actlog.    The init script does not read values from sysctl or limit...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

sort order of query occupancy command

With version 6 of TSM server the sorting order of "query occupancy"has changed from "fsid" to "alphabetical order". Why? The sorting order of commands "query filespace" (sorted by fsid)and "query ocupancy" should be the same. My opinion: This is a...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration