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Storage Protect Family

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Search option in TsmVmwareUI

When dealing with large number of VMs, finding a VM for restore/mount operation in the Datacenter list is extremely difficult and equal to finding a needle in a haystack. Search option would improve this interface significantly.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Provide support to Lustre filesystem

The new FSX on Lustre filesystem available in AWS is being utilized to store data which requires ACL access. It would be VERY helpful if Luster was supported by Spectrum Protect so that the backups of the filesystem would retain these permissions.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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

Exlusion of Filesystem on Spectrum protect client application with specific to filesystem type like exclude.fs.jfs

Spectrum Protect client is the product. Currently Spectrum protect client software manages backup and restore of files/directories of large Enterprise servers. Spectrum Protect (SP) client has feature to exclude only NAS filesystem with the comman...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

schedule name in summary table for a lanfree scheduled session

Please refer to PMR 20505,L6Q,000
about 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 ...
about 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

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