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Storage Protect Family

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Restore of all filespaces of a TSM Node on a backupset with one command

I would need a additional function within the restore backupset where I can tell the TSM Server that it should restore all filespaces of a certain node on a backupset, not only one filespace per command.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Sanbolic Melio File System

Please provide support for the Sanbolic Melio FS. Other backup vendors support this product and a high dollar 'agency is using TSM backup and upgraded their environment to Melio File systems. TSM is able to see and backup this file system, but due...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Verbose output from expire inventory process

During expire inventory processing, filespaces for nodes that does not have any file to expire are silently skipped and never mentioned in the logs even if EXPI INV QUIET=NO (NO beeing the default value) is used. Add the option to specify QUIET=VE...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Bypass quiesce using TSM and Vmware 5

We need a solution to backup VM's "bypassing" the quiesce, If is possible work with VMware to help us
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

granting authority to a domain and subsequently adding nodes to the domain

- Granting tsm admin accounts node AUTH=ACCESS doesn't appear to allow them to log in to the locally installed BACLIENT GUI but the Web GUI works…. Is this Expected behavior? Client OWNER privilege works fine in both…. But what permissions does th...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Password is removed when entering the configuration tab on TSM for VE 7.1.1

We need a patch to TSM for VE so when you open configuration tab you do not removed any information specify the password for the system account.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Need more frequent updates of delivery unit space utilization

Currently usage information for file-based delivery units is updated only during a probe job, which in current versions of TPC cannot be configured to be run more frequently than once a day. We need to give our storage users more frequent up-to-da...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Repport merge errors from clients in TSM server activity log

We would like to see the merge errors from a SQL TDP back in the TSM server activity log. The client error is: ANS0328E RC45 MERGE TEST FAILURE WITH CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT CLASS
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Command line restart of dsmcad on OS X 10.10.2 (Yosemite)

TSM documentation specifies command line operation of dsmcad as:>>-sudo /sbin/SystemStarter--+-start---+--dsmcad--------------->< +-stop----+ '-restart-' The SystemStarter utility is deprecated as of OS X 10.4 and is not present on OS ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Stackable Client OPTIONSETS to simplify optionset Mgt

Allow Server Client optionsets to be stackable, i.e. INCLEXCL OPTIONSET WINDOWS
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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