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Storage Protect Family

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Doc to install Agent ITM for TSM server to HACMP

We want to install the agent ITm TSM server on HACMP cluster.We find no documentation on the product. This is very urgent
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Changing the nodes password using an additional Administration user after password expiration

Currently there are two types of client Administrators called client owner and client accessor. The big problem is that these administrators are unable to change the nodes password on their own. By the other hand these users are able to restore/ b...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Selectively install filesets with Auto Deployment or install only Filesets already deployed

The ability to select which filesets are installed during auto deployment. For security and system resource reasons, we install only features that will be used for each TSM Client. Auto deployment installed Hdw, HdwSnp, Image, and NAS when upgradi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

Match return codes with documentation

Currently there is a disparity in the documentation vs the actual behaviour. As such I would like to see this recitified.I would like, that the following be changed in so that the 'return code 4 explanation is as follows: "The operation completed ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Restore Volume only allows the restore of one volume at a time.

Restore Volume only allows the restore of one volume at a time. This is not at all efficient. Multiple volume restore needs to be supported.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM support of NAS environment variable thru NDMP (EMC)

Customer Natixis (large Bank) is using TSM as their enterprise backup solution. They are also using Celerra NAS from EMC and use migration/HSM features of those devices between different CIFS network shares to lower the price of the hardware. For ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

HSM Issue w/Double Take

Product : DoubleTakeNew Feature required DoubleTake - provides real-time byte level replication from one server to another using our HSM for Windows Archiving product as an engine. Description:When a file is migrated by HSM for Windows it is not d...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 2 Not under consideration

For legal reasons we may be asked to change the retention period to unlimited for an EXISTING backup (and not do a new backup

See attached document
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Contact-Field for VMs in VM-Backup

Add a contact email field for a vm filespace that allows to notify a user about the backup state.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Use pattern/glob to decide which scratch tapes to allocate

Be able to set a tape label pattern/glob against each TSM instance or storage pool, for tapes that it will use to allocate from the scratch pool. This would mean tapes could be seperated between instance or storage pool even though a library is sh...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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