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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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TSM for VE - Disable Disk Management access to sahed LUNs

To enable SAN transport method to be used by vStorage Backup Server (the datamover) VM backups, one must share the same LUNs used by the pool of host servers with the vStorage Backup Server. Extra care has to observed because if the datamover serv...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

In TDP for Mail v6.4 for Exchange, my customer refuse to see the data of the email when he use the Recovery by object view.

In TDP for Mail v6.4 for Exchange, my customer refuse to see the data of the email when he use the Recovery by object view.It is blocked by the security service. The data of the email is private.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Flag to not provide tivoli header messages with select statements.

A possible flag to be included on dsmadmc to NOT respond with the tivoli header messages about the server/client release information.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Space Management IPv6 support

SONAS is a strategic product for our customer. Customer has a need to install IPv6. So SONAS will support IPv6 in the near future all the involved components must support IPv6. One of these components is TSM Space Management. Therefore TSM Space M...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Domino 32bit Support on 64bit Windows

TSM Support for TSM server 6.3/6.4 Windows and TSM for Mail (Domino) : Support for Domino 32 bit on 64bit Windows (2008/2008R2)(Last listet for TDP Mail version 5.5.2)
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

KeepAlive Option with TSM Client

Introduction of a keepalive functionality, e.g. by means of an adjustable parameter depending on timeout values set by firewall between client and server
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Request for 64Bit HSM Client Package for AIX System

We have installed 64Bit BAClient 6.2.2.0 in all AIX clients. There is a customer requirement to deploy HSM on 1000+ AIX Client.As per the PMR support we have downloaded the HSM pacakage CZGL7ML.tar.gz from passport advantage site. We tried to extr...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Problem on mapping multiple CIFS shares to perform snapdiff backups on a windows host

I have TSM 6.2 server running on Windows 2008 64bit and TSM 6.3 Client runing on VM (Windows 2008) for snapdiff backups
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

How to check last successful backup update on filespaces in TSM server for schedule running on sanpdiff

How to check the filespaces on node is updated with last successful backup date, when a node is associated with snapdiff backup schedule
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

UEFI support for TSM Fastback BMR

BMR recovery for servers using UEFI. The current work around is complex and is not meeting customer SLA. IBM and other competitors are using UEFI on all new server hardware.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for BMR 2 Not under consideration