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DP for Exchange still needs Organization Management right or your SR/PMR won't be supported

If you use DP for Exchange, you'll still need the Permission Organzation Management right, or you won't get 2nd-Level support from IBM.In large companies, like VW, it's not common that automation-users will get these rights. VW uses DP for Exchang...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

tsmdiskperf.pl doesn't work on RHEL7

I downloaded the latest blueprint scripts (v2.3) to get the tsmdiskperf.pl script I ran this on a RHEL6 server and got valid results. However running it on my RHEL7 server gave zero results. The problem appears to be that the script cannot match t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM banner for login via dsmadmc

We have an outstanding audit requirement to be able to define a login banner when logging into TSM via the dsmadmc CLI.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

SnapDiif support for NetApp Clustered Data Ontap

Hello, need to know when TSM backup will support Snapdiff functionality on NetApp Clustered Data Ontap 8.2 and later release.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Ubuntu Support for TSM Server

I have a customer who want Ubuntu Support for the TSM Server on a x86_64 Platform.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Compression for sequential storage pool

We see dedupe within a storage pool but whem will we see that TSM server will be able to compress data within the volumes? If running TSM on Windows 2008 R2 and storing sequential volumes on NTFS file system, we will see a compression factor of ab...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Multi-threaded Backup Stgpool

Requesting that BACKUP STGPOOL use multiple threads per tape drive to help ensure buffer underruns do not occur.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM 7.2 Active Migration Delay - Specify a separate migration delay for active files in a STGPOOL.

TSM 7.2 Active Migration Delay - Specify a separate migration delay for active files in a STGPOOL.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM 7.2 virtual synthetic full

TSM 7.2 virtual synthetic full - Need ability to run an incremental backup job with an alternate MGMTCLASS, that does not force a re-send of the files. Files already in TSM would simply be tagged/bound to the additional MGMTCLASS (in addition to t...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Occupancy or Auditocc improvement

Is it possible to efficiently add the ability of TSM to record the current ACTIVE (post-backup of a node) data by either:1) Add the a process to update the AUDITOCC - BACKUP_ACTIVE_MB field.2) Add a field to OCCUPANCY table to record the current A...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered