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Storage Protect Family

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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

TSm support for ExaLogic devices

We are requested for TSM to support Exalogic backup
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM FOR VE: Specify management class for vm full backups

When you run the recommended backup strategy IFINCR for VM backups, then the first backup is an IFFULL backup.In our strategy, we place the IFFULL-Backup in an other storage pool which is later migrated to tape.The following IFINCR-Backups are pla...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

dsmc hang when NFS hard mount is fail

i want that the dsmc or dsmc sched dont hang on a failed NFS Mount.Ther should be a timout and than go on with backup.ther can be a message in errorlog.But i dont want to hang the dsmc
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM BA Client backup the local file spaces in sequencially order, starting from C: to X:. need random order

As it is today the TSM BA Client backup the local file spaces in sequencially order, starting from C: to X:. I want to have an random order or some intelligence, that the TSM code should start to backup the file spaces with oldest successfully bac...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration