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Storage Protect Family

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Restore or server migration: delete inactive files on destination file system

We have "dsmc rest Image c: -incre -deletefiles" (image + last incremental - deletion of the inactive marked files at the TSM server) to be able to restore the last status of a file system. Can we have "dsmc rest \\OldServer\Oldshare\*.* \\NewServ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Update to TSMJBB daemon

We have been having AIX lpars with busy filesystems, 'lock up' with the tsmjbbd daemon running. It would be better if the tsmjbbd could issue some sort of warning instead of locking up the server. The PMR that caused this request was 82029.082.000...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Support for SQL Server Express Edition

Please support SQL Server Express Edition. Technically, this should be no different than Standard Edition.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

q event * * historical=yes

q event * * is very slow, because it build up future events too. I spoke to Colin Dawson at TSM Symposium 2015, and making a command like q event for historical events olny should be quite simple to include as an option.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SQL Log backup to report which DBs are excluded

When doing a MS-SQL log backup, DBs in simple mode are excluded from processing (which is good). However, it would be nice to get a list of which DBs are excluded in the report not only the # of excludes in order to be able to alert the DBAs of this.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Vmware : TSM for VE Oracle VSS Support

Oracle under Windows provides the possibility to run VSS Backup of Oracle. I have found several RFPs where Customes are requesting this feature. I think we should give support to this type of backup.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Mail for MS Exchange documentation needs a summary of communication paths/ports/credentials for VSS based backups

The setup and interaction between components in performing a VSS based Exchange backup is very complex, involving windows and Exchange credentials, TSM server node and Admin ID credentials, proxy authority, BA client services configuration, and bi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Packet data curruption between Tivoli client API and Tivoli server.

Customer is using external network between client machine and Tivoli storage server. These is data corruption between Tivoli client API (dsmSendData) and Tivoli server and client API is not indicating any data corruption. Due to this database reco...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

dsmicfgx recommend free space in active log

TSM configuration GUI should have a warning/reminder to allow enough free space in the active log filesystem.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Make SANDISCOVERY smarter in environments using persistent device naming

The SANDISCOVERY feature can update a device path from a persistently named device (/dev/lin_tape/by-id/lin_tape3) to a non-persistently named device (/dev/IBMtape3). For example: 08/09/2015 12:41:06 ANR8975I Found new path for DRIVE3 and target n...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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