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Change in order for the TSM6.3 Restore process of WORM enabled File system

Issue: IBM TSM (non NDMP) is used to take backup of WORMed/Retained file, it backs up file content and also backs up the Xattr “ibrix.virtual.retention_state” along with the value of the Xattr. Now, when IBM TSM restores a retained/WORMed file on ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 5 Not under consideration

FastBack performance improvement

We want fast snapshot backup speed, please.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 4 Not under consideration

Allow policy domain admin to modify client option set

Policy Domain administrators are not able to modify client option sets. You should be able to grant authority to allow policy domain admins to modify a client option set.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

IDLETIMEOUT Large DB Recovery

We recently could not restore a large SQL DB backed up via TDP with Lan free client. We altered the following parameters on server and lan free side... COMMTIMEOUT 30000 IDLETIMEOUT 300 RESOURCETIMEOUT 300 Our major concern is we beleive the IDLET...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Increase the granularly of administrator permissions

Increase the granularly of administrator permissions. This goes with other future enhancements to TSM, specifically the ability to push client upgrades from the TSM server. Or grant permission to perform a restore or backup from Admin Center (I su...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow dedupe of objects ovr 2TB

Dedupe processing should handle objects of any size.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

It takes a long time to start / terminate TSM Server after DB backup

After db backup, TSM server does not quickly start or terminate because of waiting for expanding a truncated log of DB2. A real case at solaris environment is that it took 14 minutes to stop TSM server. That means it wiil also take 14 minutes to s...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add 'Are You Sure' to TDP GUI closeout

If the user closes the GUI, need a prompt to the user asking 'are you sure you want to close, you have processes running' if there's a process running such as a restore. This would help prevent accidental cancellation of a process, which occurred ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Data on client option and feature exploitation

There have been over the years a large number of TSM client options and enhancements whose use is not easily recognized by a TSM server. For example, if a Windows TSM client is using journal-based backups, that�s not obvious to TSM server administ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Execute DB2 commands and send output sent to activity log

Be able to execute DB2 commands from dsmadmc sessions and have output sent to activity log. There is useful information about the DB2 database that can�t be displayed with existing query commands.� Either build additional query commands or provide...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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