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Storage Protect Family

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Add Line of failure for command schedules

I would like to see particularly which line of a TSM script failed when running. Currently I believe Query EVent would only tell me that my administration script failed. It would be good if it showed as Failed (ln32) then I could look into my scri...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Avoiding inventory mismatches between TSM and library after library hard-stop

After severe library problems, e.g.. a hard-stop due to an accessor problem, when the library is taken offline for fixing (in our case a TS3500), tapes remain loaded in drives. After the solution of the problem the tapes are automatically moved to...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Cleanup "old files" when the Policy now excludes them.

Provide the ability to Cleanup "old files" when the Policy now excludesthem, but the files still exist on the PC.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 4 Not under consideration

Canceling sessions by name

Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM support for EMC DD Boost

I have 2 large customers requesting support for DD Boost.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Point in Time directory restore selection from GUI

When performing a point in time restore through the GUI, would like to be able to navigate through any directories.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

RedHat Enterprise Virtualization - Manager

Add RHEV-M support similar to support provided for VMWare.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

FastBack support for large capacity snapshot backup

We came across a few customers who looking for friendly backup utilities to backup large Exchange data (over 8-10 TB).
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 4 Not under consideration

Archive function

An ability to run archive on the TSM server side insted of from the clientsid where you have the competition with normal backup windows.When the archive is on diskpool, dedup can be used.generate backupset is to devclass that can't be deduped.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

TSM Consolidate Command (SYS4645)

A TSM "Consolidate" command will do something similar to move nodedata, but thresholds can be set based on a node's level of tape fragmentation. Just as it's seamless that migration or reclamation starts automatically when disk and tapes reach a c...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration