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Storage Protect Family

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Operational backup restart Delegation

Operational Delegation the ability to restart backup from the Admin Center, monitor daily schedules, and easy click restart within the admin center.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for MQ

Hi,We would like do MQ backups online with TSM.It is possible on next TSM releases? Thanks
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Allow ANS1946W "skipped file" messages to be disabled on restore to increase performance

Restores of file systems with very large numbers of files can be unnecessarily slowed if the "-ifnewer" or "-replace=no" options are used and a large portion of the target file system already contains files. A recent restore attempt of a 6 million...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

vCenter plugin does not display modified schedules properly

Problem: vcentre plugin does not display modified schedules When I add a filter to the plugin to exclude VMs from backup, it update the schedule in TSM Server but it is not always reflected in the plugin.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Manager Preempts

For TSM server preempts, I suggest that restores should always be able to preempt along with server database backups and should not be turned off with the NOPREEMPT option. Even better, develop several levels of preempts that allow a finer control...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Provide ability to change email subjects dynamically on TSM reports using TCR

We have transitioned from using scripts to generate email reports for successful/failed backups on a daily basis to use TSM Reporting using TCR/ITM. While our current scripts are easily able to generate dynamic email subjects to mention that yeste...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

TDP Exchange 6.4 restore single mail with 2 account domain

Possible to restore the mailboxe from a domain (LU) on TDP 6.4.1 Exchange 2010 from a domain (APLLI).Should we have 2 accounts from the 2 domains LU and APPLI for the restoration of the Mailboxe ?
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Fastback enhanced scheduling

Update Fastback scheduling to allow enhanced scheduling in line with other TSM products.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Fastback Windows cluster support

Retain changed block mapping after the failover of volumes from one cluster node to the next so that Delta block incrementals are not required. Windows servers are patched and rebooted EVERY month. With a cluster Windows provides a way to eliminat...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 4 Not under consideration

Fastback suite Enhancements

Continue development of Fastback into a 64-bit architecture.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 3 Not under consideration

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