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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 ...
almost 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
almost 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...
about 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

Windows 2016 and TSM 8.1.0.0

Since we can't use the new 8.1.0.0 TSM gui to perform a systemstate restore, we have to use WINPE with the TSM client installed.The problem is there are instructions for this, and the ones posted on IBM's sites relate to Windows 2012.Which by the ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

TWS support for IBM i operating system version V7R3M0

According with information in IBM site, there aren't any supported versions of TWS agent for IBM i V7R3M0.Latest supported version is TWS 9.2 but only supported in IBM i V7R1M0 and V7R2M0.Meanwhile V7R1M0 end-of-support was announced to 30/04/2018...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Handling sparse files

This is similar to RFE 101191, but for versions of Linux that don't support lseek with SEEK_HOLE. For those versions of Linux, is it possible to use ioctl with FS_IOC_FIEMAP ?See the source code for BSD tar (not GNU tar) for details. When I was op...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Skipping sub-folder from TSM backup process without impacting its previous backup

I want to skip a sub-folder on a Windows drive (or a sub-directory on a Linux file system) from the TSM client incremental backup process. When I say 'skipping a sub-folder', I mean not to back up this sub- folder starting from tonight but not to ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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