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Storage Protect Family

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Liberty server should come back up automatically when TCPIP is restarted

If TCPIP is down and then is restarted, Liberty Server integrated into TPC-R should be able to reconnect to TCPIP without being restarted.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Support for SQL Server Express Edition

Please support SQL Server Express Edition. Technically, this should be no different than Standard Edition.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

ITM TSM agent application support on zlinux ITM TEMS, TEPS servers

Previous enhancement request 27428 was closed with status of delivered and statement."This capability has been delivered with TSM 6.4 (TSM server 6.3.3). We have a small agent install in TSM 6.4 that will meet this requirement"This enhancement req...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 3 Not under consideration

Can we have the option to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) hosts to dsmserv.opt (TSM)

Can we have ability to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) servers to the dsmserv.opt file in TSM
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TDP for VE

TDP For VE is trying to make backup VMWARE machines, that are not online.We have 2 DataCenter using SRM.this is a horrible situation to manage on a large environment.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Replication on Migration

Parameter for Storagepools to have a replication on migration instead of copy on migration.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

limitation in TSM Server database should map POSIX standard

The limitation of different columns length in the TSM Server DB2 database does not match the limitation in reality. For example: PATH_MAX or MAX_PATH length according to OS POSIX standard is 4096 characters; while in db2 it is set to 1025 for FILE...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Option "Relable Scratch" for ACSLS Library

We use an Fujitsu Eternus Centricstore as an ACSLS Library, but with an ACSLS Library it is not possible to "relable" the Logical Volumes when they go to "Scratch" Status and to free up Space on the physical Tapes.To provide this at the Moment you...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include text field in TSM client GUI to type path

In PMR 70622,100,838 we had the problem that using webclient to restore a group of files having selected PIT option before is not possible because an intermediate subdirectory had not an active version on that date. Here is an example: If there wa...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Request for TSM 6.3.4 support with ACSLS on Oracle Linux

Los Alamos National Laboratory uses Oracle's ACSLS tape library manager with its TSM system. LANL wishes to upgrade to ACSLS 8.3, which runs exclusively on Oracle Linux. LANL is requesting that TSM 6.3.4+ be officially tested/supported for use wit...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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