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Storage Protect Family

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disk to tape migration from large server

Current disk to tape migration process starts a single process when moving data from disk to tape. We are converting to Spectrum Scale using HSM for a server that has 2 PB of data. A single migration process will kill the conversion project.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Support for local deduplication cache when using API clients

Logged on behave of the customer. They would like formal support for a local deduplication cache when using the TDP (API) products, such as TSM for Databases (eg SQL).
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Add feature to the BA client to automatically pull down a new version, install as part of a scheduled incr backup

This is not to be confused with Autodeployment.This feature would add the ability to configure the B/A client to download and install a new version either from its Spectrum Protect server or from public.dhe.ibm.com on the next scheduled incrementa...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

OC STG Settings flexibilisation

In a large Installations monitored by Operational Center are settings for Storage Pools too inflexible.The thresholds could be set only for all Spoke Servers and all Storage Pools. Especially by using of Storage Pool from type FILE with predefined...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Inactive folder deletion on TSM client GUI

In my Tivoli Extended Client on a Windows Server it is not possible to delete inactive Folders, only files are possible. That is not usable for me, because on that server many folders are changing and I have to delete also manually. This is in my ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

World Writable permissions to citScanOutput.xml

We are working with a Banking client in which access to the Backup data to other users can cause issues. The File citScanOutput.xml which gets World writeable permissions may cause an security violation
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Client TSM for Hyper-V

In our company we use client TSM for Hyper-V version 7.1.6.5. Client is installed on cluster with Windows Server Datacenter 2012R2 with role Hyper-V.During we use this client and run client TSM for Hyper-V, users have to be in group "Administrator...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Exch. TDP restore -progress bar not displayed

Restore of Exchange database using Tivoli Storage Management software no longer shows the status or progress bar until completion of the restore, or part of the restore. For example, if we restore from full and incremental backup, the status will ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Journalled Based Backup for Veritas VXFS

We have a shared Veritas filesystem that contains a million plus files. We have a RPO of 15 minutes for these. The standard TSM client takes approximately 1.5 hours to examine this filesystem and so we badly miss our RPO. The JBB does exactly what...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Macro for Capacity Licensing does not differentiate between Capacity and PVU

Our team uses TSM 7.1.3.100 to backup our entire enterprise. We currently are licensed by Terabyte; however, we also use TSM for System Backup and Recovery (Sysback). Sysback is licensed by PVU. We are in the middle of an IBM Software audit and th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

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