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Storage Protect Family

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Need to reduce rights needed for BIND ID to implement Active Directory for TSM Admins

In order to implement use of Active Directory for IDs logging into TSM server, we need to create a BIND ID with Domain Administrator rights. TSM seems to be the only product making this requirement. Websphere does the same thing but the BIND ID on...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Weekly Monthly and Yearly

The customer is an MSP and would like to save weekly, monthly and yearlys. He is new to TSM and would like to have tape rotation for audit purposes. The only way to do this in TSM today is 1) archive which creates a lot of duplicated data 2) backu...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

TSM UPGRADE TO 7.1 CAUSES CLIENTS PASSWORD TO BE INVALID AND BACKUPS ARE NO LONGER POSSIBLE UNTIL AGENT IS RECYCLED!!

We upgraded to TSM 7.1 on yesterday in our smallest TSM environment. However, we experienced one hiccup that is extremely alarming. As clients connect to the TSM server after the upgrade, they are unable to communicate with the TSM server because ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

VE Restore from GUI no search button

unable to search for a specific vm to restore
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

TDP SQL Proxy Error on LEGCAY operations

The tdpsqlc Query SQL operation errors with an ANS1532E (RC5722) Proxy Rejected error even though the config is set for LEGACY backups/restores which do not use VSS and the proxy configuration.If the operation is using the LEGCAY method, then the ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Incorporation of a way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data

There is no way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data in current TSM release.The customer would like to specify explicitly the priority of volume selection when restoring data.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Support for Microsoft SQL 2014 on TSM for databases 7.1

We need support for Support for Microsoft SQL 2014 on TSM for databases 7.1 The OS is Windows 2012R2
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

TSM VE report capabilites

WE are using TSM VE and have competition with VEEAM.It look like there is lack of capabilities in the report section.Our customer ask to get the following simple report that will contain:VM-name; Start Backup; End Backup; Size backup; Backup Statu...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Allow multiple object delete from TSM for mail command line

There needs to be a way to delete multiple TDP objects via command line, from a single TSM scan -- for multiple databases With the current process to delete multiple stale backups requires a single command line to be issued, which scans for each o...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 4 Delivered

Be able to change retention for individual VM guests being backed up with TSM VE

If a customer wants to change the retention time for individual VM guest backups, the customer has to change it for all vm guests that are associated with the Data Mover node. Because TSM VE stores the individual guests as file spaces under the da...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

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