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Storage Protect Family

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Add TSM for ERP session identifier for the improved collocation

Currently, when TSM for ERP is used to backup DB2 database, it assignes the same filespace name to all backups stored on the TSM Server. This results in various undesired consequences for the backups of large databases which are normally performed...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Not under consideration

Re-Map Volume Location

It would be beneficial to be able to offline a volume in a storage pool, for example your backuppool. Then at the OS level be able to manually move or copy the volume to a new physical location, log back into the TSM service and run a update vol t...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Make TSM for VE a "HA" solution

During the backup the virtual machine is “freezed” (which seems the normal way the “quiescing” that VM initiates on behalf of the backup application is done). As the customer is running Linux in some VMs and is also running an “HA” solution in two...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TDP Exchange 2010 Issue. Statistics reports are NOT showing during backup and restore.

TDP Exchange 2010 Issue. Statistics reports are NOT showing during backup and restore. Customer needs that report and please refer this PMR for clarification. PMR 37799,227,000
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Tape open/closes in actlog need process ids.

When a single admin command creates multiple processes, (eg maxpr=2), each of which opens/closes tapes, the session number of the admin is shown in the actlog message, but not the process number. Please add the process number to the open/close act...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect 7.1.7 with LTO8 Drive and LTO7-M8 Media Support

We request the support of IBM TS4500 with LTO8 Drives and LTO7-M8 Media to be supported in IBM TSM 7.1.7. Today, only TSM 8 supports LTO8
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Scripting : Add a "SLEEP" command

Add a unix like "SLEEP" construct that forces TSM interal scripts to wait for a number of seconds before going onto the next command.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

8.1 Backup Archive client support for Linux BE on Power

No BA Client is available for 8.1 on SLES 11 on Power Big Endian.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Provide cross platform recovery of .nsd files for Lotus Dominos using Tivoli Data Protect for Dominos

Customer is migrating Dominos from AIX to xLinux, and interested in being able to recover .nsd files from AIX backups into xLinux platform.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

SP for DATABASES SQL 8.1.4 should support SQL 2016 EXPRESS

SP for DATABASES SQL 8.1.4 should support SQL 2016 EXPRESS.Currently it is not listed into the supported DB
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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