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Storage Protect Family

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fastback server CDP

this is for TSM FASTBACK 6.1.x.x. IBM 5724-U93there is a CDP option in he Job Schedules.When a restoring from such backup , there is a timeline showing up and the time of the desired point of recovery can be selected. The great idea with CDP , is ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 3 Not under consideration

Ability to "protect" certain attributes on unlocked policies from being overriden by the client

For unlocked policies: Provide the ability to protect (not allow anychanges for the client side) for certain attributes in the "Policy".Examples:1) Not allowing the User to override the Remote Quota or Remote TSMserver2) Do not allow the "Exclusio...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

TSM node replication feature : many to many

Our customer wants to have the possibility to do a 3 site replication copies. They are interested in to do replication from site 1 to site2 and 3 of same nodes.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

MOVE NODEDATA from random access pools

MOVE NODEDATA should allow operations on DISK storage pools, for both source and target.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

FB4WKSCDP auto register using TSM as remote storage

When running the FB4WKS CDP and using a TSM server as the remote storage device, you have to manaully register the host name before the backups will run.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

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

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