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TSM for Space Management - dsmmigundelete

The User's guide for current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) states: "You cannot use the dsmmigundelete command to re-create stub files for individual files or specific groups of files." In practice it is often necessary to restore indi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

read-only LUNs for Storwize/SVC

We use VEEAM software to backup our VMware environment. VEEAM has the functionality to backup the VMs through SAN instead of network backup. But therefore the physical VEEAM backup server (Windows server) must be able to see the LUNs which are map...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Declaration of "SID $HOME" as an option and not a requirement in the FCM4Unix installer

Wish:The Flashcopy Manager for Unix (FCM4Unix) installer should provide the activation for the first DB2/Oracle/SAP-Oracle instance as an option and not as a requirement.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

SVC 7.4.0.4 error message

When upgrading SVC code on V7000 from from 7.x to 7.4.x, after the upgrade was successful, the upgrade radio button is greyed out and a error message "enclosure stalled" is displayed on the GUI. The same message is displayed when lsupdate command ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Mounting & Dismounting of tapes while executing backup jobs in scripts and non functioning of overflow location.

We are executing multiple backup jobs under one script, while executing scripts we have observed that there are multiple mounting and dismounting of tapes occur due to which our backup window has increased. We are also facing issues for non functi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3.5 Admin Center Windows Server 2012

Admin Center is not currently supported in Windows Server 2012 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410467 Install shows the below error. Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException ZeroGu2: Windows DL...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Not under consideration

Disable replication on restored database

Provide option in GUI to set "disable replication after restore", independently from backuped database file (NSF).Reference: (b_dp_dom_win.pdf)IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Version 7.1Data Protection for IBM Domino for WindowsInstallation an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

TSM backup compatibility with LTFS EE

Given a multi-tier GPFS cluster that includes LTFS-EE providing archive the backup should only apply to the disk and flash based storage. Once the data has moved to LTFS-EE then the backups should stop for that data.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

request to enhance TSM documentation

As for compliance to PCIDSS requirement 8.2.1, our organization would need to find the following information in TSM documentationa) algorithm used by TSM to hash local authentication credentials b) location of the hashed local authentication crede...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow HANA DB backups to be monitored & managed via Admin Assistant

The Admin Assistant within TSM for ERP currently does not support HANA backups
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

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