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Add the ability to configure the Time span of Recent Tasks

At the TSM Ve Web GUI, add the ability to configure the Time span of "Recent Tasks"
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

schedule name in summary table for a lanfree scheduled session

Please refer to PMR 20505,L6Q,000
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Not under consideration

In PMR-43180,7TD,000 Steve Huber has requested that we submit an RFE to permit DFDSS COPYDUMP to reblock dump data.

In PMR-43180,7TD,000 Steve Huber has requested that we submit an RFE to permit DFDSS COPYDUMP to reblock dump data. Is this something you can assist with? PMR-43180In addition, I was speaking to Tim this morning regarding the limitation of the DFD...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Rotate TSM Error Log

TSM Client on Windows is not rorating Error Log and Log file size keep growing unless we restart TSM Service. This is causing diskspace issues at our End since we have only 5GB volume for TSM Error logs. There is no issue with Backup log they are ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM ITM Agent - Activity log situations only displayed for 5mn

I'm using the TSM ITM Agent and I'm trying to configure a situation from Activity log entries.<br />These situations only appear 5mn in my TEP console before being automaticaly closed. These situations are "sampled", they should be "pure" an...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

TSM on Hyper-V Support of Attached Physical Tape Library

For the TSM Server running on Microsoft Hyper-V, there is the following URL: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546 Please advise if the TSM development team and/or the tape library driver development team is having and/or will ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VMware: Linux In-Guest Application Consistency

This enhancement request describes an important and very customer relevant improvement of the backup mechanisms of Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSMfVE) and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCMfVE). The existing support to gene...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Metadata only replication

Metadata only replication should allow user to replicate either File volumes via the SAN stack or Virtual Tape via a VTL device. This would make a VTL device more attractive and financially viable solution.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Legal Hold Requirement

Long term data retention and legal hold requirement is to provide the ability to reclassify/re-use existing backups without the need to change management classes, or multiple backups of data (see also RFE 29528). Customer expressed the desire to u...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion)

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion) - Customer is writes their own automation scripts but would like to see this natively in the TSM product.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration