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dsminfo OSINFO section more clarity

Requesting that OSINFO section of dsminfo output give more clarity on the OS distribution/level instead of just kernel level. This would be much more useful especially on Linux systems that could be any of dozens of Linux distributions.A system ca...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Improve session management in TSM to prevent ANR8216W messages

Currently, message ANR8216W is issued when TSM deliberately destroys sessions that it is not using. This is leading to many messages on the error log that are clouding real issues. Customer would like this message to be removed if TSM deliberately...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Cancel TSM Admin Schedules/Scripts

Introducing the ability to cancel an administrative schedule or a script rather than having to manually cancel all of the processes a schedule/script might create. For this to work, would most likely need the introduction of a script/schedule id t...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

tsm 4 vm: disable fallback to full backup when incremental fails

When an incremental backup fails (because of some vmware problem - the reason that it exists is not to be discussed here) - TSM client shows warning (“ANS9387W Incremental backup unsuccessful for virtual machine 'vm_machine'. Performing Full backu...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

TSM support enhancement for version 5.5: client, server and storageagent in relation to TSM version 6.3

Our main GSE Installation-Base are already on version 5. Some Costumers has Problems with the upgrade to version 6. To establish a more sophisticated upgrade plan we want to establish a longer Support cycle of version 5 over 31.12.2012
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

For a CLI restore node command allow the filelist file to have over 1,000 entries. ANR4948E is currently the error returned.

Create a new system parameter, say MAXLISTEN, which can default to 1000 for maximum lines in a file list file for a restore node request; but is client modifiable say up to 100000 or even more
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

TSM Client compatibility with the yet to be released version of Windows 2012

We wil be testing windows 2012 nextyear and rolling it out sometime in 2014. Need to know if TSM is compatible
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

ACL restores @ single file restore

In case of a single file restore, the Windows Explorer do not allow to copy ACLs in a normal copy-and-paste operation.So it is needed to use a 3rd party product (xcopy, robocopy,..) to "copy" the files from backup to productive location. This is i...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Adaptive Subfile Backup support larger file sizes

Increase the maximum file size supported by SubFile backup. We have customers using TSM to backup outlook.ost files and archive*.pst files. The file size is over the 2GB limit of Adaptive Subfile Backup, but we have many of these files and they ch...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Dropdown lists for Restore VM operations

It would be nice to have the client populate the Datacenter, Host,, and Datastore options in the Restore VM screen.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

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