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Storage Protect Family

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

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over 11 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.
over 11 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...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Tapes in a copy pool that go empty and not reclaimed by tape reclaim never get get returned to scratch.

Tapes in a copy pool that go empty and not reclaimed by tape reclaim never get get returned to scratch. They do not get retrieved from off site because no process is run against them.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

In the DRM lifecycle, Once the tapes arrive from the Courier, the status should change from "Courier Retrieve" to "on site

In the DRM lifecycle, Once the tapes arrive from the Courier, the status should change from "Courier Retrieve" to "on site retrieve" BUT, if you do that, and don't put them straight into the library, TSM loses track of those tapes. A possible solu...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SNAPDIFF with QTREE Support

NDMP backup does not support qtree data structure. I have two customer who has about 20TB today and will grow to 40TB and would like to utilize this function.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Incremental forever for Databases

Would like to see if it is possible to have incremental forever capability with the SQL and Oracle TDP. Hard to pitch the idea of TSM being an incremenal forever solution , exept for Database scenarios.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

IBM AIX SAS HBA support with HP branded LTO Tape drives.

We tried qualifying HP LTO5 & 6 SAS drives in our labs with AIX 6.1 & 7.1, but the OS would hang when we tried to discover them. No issue getting it to work with HP LTO FC drives, but fails wtih SAS drives using the IBM AIX SAS HBA.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

No Warning Message in Actlog when TSM Storage Agent reaches max sessions limit

If a Storage Agent reaches his MaxSessions Limit, a ANRXXXW should appear in activity-log.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

backup incremental for all the VSS writers

When we proceed to an systemstate backup, only the System Writer backup is incremental, the others VSS backup are Full (ex.: WDS). in that way, Tthe backup increase very fast.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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