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Storage Protect Family

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Delete schedule via VMCLI

We use VMCLI to schedule "run now" schedules in TSMVE via a custom script. After a few days the schedule page in the web gui is full and will not load. We want the ability to remove (now) schedules via VMCLI so that we can cleanup the schedule lis...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Increase maximum value of archive retention field

Increase Maximum Value of Spectrum protect retention paramaters to extend retention up to 100 years. Customers in legal and compliance field require to retain and automatically delete data for 100 years. The current maximum retention is 30,000 day...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

deduplication issue

Backup taking long time after winodws deduplication is enabled on windows 2012 server
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Client should deliver a possible patch/update level of an OS

New client-versions deliver information about the OS into the TSM-server.APAR IT13056 refers to OS Windows 2012 R2 Update 1.At the moment a TSM-admin has no possibilty to see whether a client has installed this update or not.Only the user of the c...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Support of AIX V7R2 with TSM V7R1 (latest version)

The requirement is a support of of AIX V7R2 with TSM V7R1 (latest version).Current, TSM V7R1 has support AIX V7R1. AIX V7R2 isn't included.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Database temp space usage

Currently any large SQL queries results in using up all the remaining DB space. This causes shutdown and loss of service.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

could you please correct a document?

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672351 If 6.4.2 is not supported for 5.1 U3, could you please update this information to the technote for clarity ? (I think we can clear the support information when you create the sigle table fo...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Tintri support with TSM-VE

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments is not currently listed as integrating with TinTri storage.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TDP for implementing SAP Hana on Suse 12 operating system

We actually are in a critical situation, all new Lenovo Hardware can not be installed with SUSE 11, we urgently need TDP for Sap Hana with support for SUSE 12, so that we can continue with the implementation and give service to the customers accor...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM should back up files with timestamps before 01.01.1970 and after 19.01.2038

TSM should handle dates < 1/1/1970 01:00 and dates > 1/19/2038 04:04:07.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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