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Mounting & Dismounting of tapes while executing backup jobs in scripts and non functioning of overflow location.

We are executing multiple backup jobs under one script, while executing scripts we have observed that there are multiple mounting and dismounting of tapes occur due to which our backup window has increased. We are also facing issues for non functi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3.5 Admin Center Windows Server 2012

Admin Center is not currently supported in Windows Server 2012 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410467 Install shows the below error. Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException ZeroGu2: Windows DL...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Not under consideration

Disable replication on restored database

Provide option in GUI to set "disable replication after restore", independently from backuped database file (NSF).Reference: (b_dp_dom_win.pdf)IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Version 7.1Data Protection for IBM Domino for WindowsInstallation an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

TSM backup compatibility with LTFS EE

Given a multi-tier GPFS cluster that includes LTFS-EE providing archive the backup should only apply to the disk and flash based storage. Once the data has moved to LTFS-EE then the backups should stop for that data.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

request to enhance TSM documentation

As for compliance to PCIDSS requirement 8.2.1, our organization would need to find the following information in TSM documentationa) algorithm used by TSM to hash local authentication credentials b) location of the hashed local authentication crede...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow HANA DB backups to be monitored & managed via Admin Assistant

The Admin Assistant within TSM for ERP currently does not support HANA backups
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM can't report that an object is a symbolic link

When attempting to restore a subdirectory structure we encountered a situation where a symbolic link had been replaced with a subdirectory (with contents). The TSM Backup Archive Client completed the restore but reported an error: ANS4007E Error p...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE reporting unsuccessful backup

TSM for VE, version 7.1.2, that skips VM during backup of SRM VMs generates a SUCCESFUL=NO in the summary table
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Is a defect

OEL Oracle Enterprise Linux Client Support for TSM Backup

Need to validate that TSM will support OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) as an operating system option in CMS for the CSM4Oracle offering. OEL will become the default OS option for CMS and OVM and I need to ensure that it will be supported by the TSM ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration