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Storage Protect Family

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TSM Scratch volume selection for SCSI type libraries

1. When a tape is checked out, then checked back in, the mount count should not be reset. The count should only be set to zero when a new tape is labeled into the library or forced to zero by options. 2. Add an option to the check in command to fo...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Journal based backup for Sun Solaris

Support for journal based backup as on AIX and Windows.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Filtered search is lost when adding a filter option for SQL Server

TDP 6.4.X.X for SQL ServerFiltered database list with Search field fulfilled is lost when adding a filter option with "Show Filter Options / Add Row".The filter is applied but the search done previously in the bottom area is lost.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Display real-time progress during backup and restore operations for SQL Server

TDP 6.4.X.X for SQL ServerEnhancement request to display real-time progress during backup and restore operations for SQL Server in the progress bar in both tabs "Task List" and "Task Details".Currently the progress bar stays empty until the end of...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

ENABLENASDEDUP should be supported on EMC Celerra/VNX Filers

ENABLENASDEDUP should be supported on EMC Celerra/VNX Filers.According to documentation (http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.ref.doc%2Fr_opt_server_enablenasdedup.html), this parameter are only suppor...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Public repo for TSM Linux Clients

Provide a public repo (repository) for the TSM Clients that can be used for automated synching for new versions of TSM Linux Clients.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

ANR0157W Database operation FETCH for table Import. Groups failed with result code 4522

ACTION TAKEN: Hello TSM, according to DB2 information center: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.messages.sql.doc/doc/msql01224n.html The SQL1224 has various rc's (reason code). And we have rc = 3 for NUM_LOG_SPAN:...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Validate HSM in Veritas software for cluster.

Validate HSM in Veritas software for cluster.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 2 Not under consideration

Ability to specify different retention policies for different drives

Ability for TSM for VE to specify different retention policies for different drives in a single VM.Same request as ID# 41739
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM Server Import Node from Media requires option to start from tape sequence # other than 1.

System: TSM ServerActor: Bendigo Bank TSM Media Exports have been actively used to migrate from our TSM 5.5 environment running on Windows 2003 to TSM 6.4.x running on AIX 7.1 Description:I have a very long media import to a TSM v6.3.4.100 server ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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