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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

Hyper-V Redirect restore

System: TSM for VEActor: Require additional feature Description:I am doing a Hyper-V Restore using the TSM BA Client.I can backup and restore fine. The problem is I cannot choose a location of where to direct the restore.(the ba client hyper v res...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

TDP package 6.3.0.3 for 64bit OS and 32bit Domino server

We need new TDP package ( 6.3.0.3 ) for 64bit OS ( windows ) and 32bit Domino server. Latest mixed package is available under release 5.5 ( 5.5.3.2-TIV-TSMDOM-WinX86_X64.exe ) , we have about 100 domino servers. All are 32bit domino and most of 'e...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

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.
almost 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...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM V6.3 AIX V7.1 install cause AIX TL level down

Whe TSM V6.3.0 is installed into AIX7.1 TL1, xlsmp.rte fileset, whose version is 2.1.0.0, which is the lowest version that TSM V6.3.0 work, is also installed automatically into AIX. This causes AIX level down from TL1 to TL0 because AIX7.1 TL1 req...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect