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Storage Protect Family

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Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add "browse" support for fields in the VM Restore Destination dialog box in the BA Client "Restore VM" function.

The current dialog box in the TSM BA cient for selecting the destination parameters when restoring a VM to an alternate location (Restore to "Following location") do not provide any lookup or "browse" capability, requiring the user to remember and...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Virtual image restore without ISCSI windows system

Due to Performance and handling we would perfere to use a LINUX Proxy to restore single objects from Image backup. today a Windows Proxy and a Linux Proxy is required to restore a Linux file.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT SETS NON TSM FOR VE NODE PLATFORM TO "TDP VMWARE"

TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT SETS NON TSM FOR VE NODE PLATFORM TO "TDP VMWARE"
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

tsm server registered the tdp for ms sql as winnt-platform

tsm server registered the tdp for ms sql as winnt-platform
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

Multi-session retrieve

Sometimes we may want to retrieve a full directory from previous archive session. Actually even if the files are spread over multiple tapes, the retrieve is done only on tape at a time instead of using multiple sessions to retrieve from multiple t...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3 and ACSLS 8.3 Linux

Support for ACSLS 8.3 running on RedHat Linux under TSM Server 6.3 running on Redhat Linux.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

export node collocation group name

The "collocation group name" field of a node should be exported to the target server when "export node" command is executed on a source server. If the collocation group doesn't exist on the target server it should be created (like e.g. cloptset).
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Configuration Manager Enhancement

Dear Ladies and Gentleman's,We need one Enhancement for Configuration Manager built in TSM Server. In PMR 69945,077,724 with reference to PMR 66666,077,724 and in PMR 66666,077,724 I discussed with second Level Support of TSM about the possibiliti...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS Certificate Deployment

SSL/TLS certificate deployment to clients using a TSM command and mechanism The product should contain a mechanism which can deploy cert256.arm files (or their equivalents) to registered clients. This should work for both new enablements of encryp...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration