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Storage Protect Family

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Implementing a search vm dialog in the TSM4VE plugin/web gui

Implementing a dialogue for searching a specific vm in the plugin/web gui like inside the TSM B/A client.

Multiple DSMSERV can start using the SAME ID

Enhance TSM Server code v7.x to recognize and prevent the task dsmserv to start multiple times under the same user ID. To prevent downtime caused by accidentally starting second instance using same ID. Current Activity if second instance is starte...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Operations Center exclude nodes from at risk-policy alerting

Request ability to exclude "stale" nodes no longer performing any scheduled operations from appearing as "at risk-policy" in TSM OC 6.4.1.

No errors report for schedules with a status of SEVERED

When a scheduled backup gets a "session severed" error (brecause of a comms failure/client OS problem/client reboots/loss of power at client site) the schedule is updated with a status of severed.No backup failure messages are generated on the TSM...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

DOMAIN option to use with selective backup and archive

The TSM client option "DOMAIN" should be applicable for Selective backup and Archives.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Addition of DURATION=mmm parameter to BACKUP STGPOOL command

On several occations my TSM customers have been short on scratch tapes for a long period, building up a huge backlog of data that should be backed up up to a copy storage pool. When the scratch shortage is over, the daily scripts never finishes, s...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

When using dedup, occupancy tables show wrong information

When using dedup, occupancy tables shows less space being used, than what is actually being used. This is described here:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21614080"Occupancy size discrepancy with deduplication"This poses a big probl...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

B/A Client installation impact TIMTAM application

When the B/A client is installed it removes current gsk installation (in our case GSK7) and install its GSK8 package.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

VMware backup reporting in TCR

Tivoli Common Reporting.Client is unable to have a view of each VM which is being backed up.Clients require a full detailed report of VM's being backed up within the TCR tools.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM and T10kD drive compatibility

Hi, is there a planned release date for tape drive T10kD compatibility with TSM ?Is there an early adopter program fo test of this drive with tsm? Thank you Daniele
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered