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Too long time to start &terminate TSM Server after DB backup

TSM should provide a couple options of DB2 logging mode to avoid a waste of time to wait for expanding a truncated log. e.g. DB2 LOGRETAIN, smaller log size less than 512MB and so on.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Global Mirror with SEV target disks

SVC should "reset" the volume space to the specified real capacity when a volume is used as a target volume in a GM relationship, like SVC is doing this for flash copy: when you Flash Copy data to a SEV target disk SVC "resets" the target disk, so...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Firefox 6 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support firefox 6 and beyond. It needs to support firefox 6 and beyond for currency in our environment.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 6 Not under consideration

Tivoli Admin Center 6.2.0 : act logs are not inlcuded in interface for collection of logs

act logs are not inlcuded in interface for collection of logs;
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

It is requested that udev device name can be specified for the backup image command

Since it is common that a device number is changed with OS reboot on the Linux system, generally users use udev device in order to make the device name unique.However, TSM cannot specify this udev device name for the backup image command, which is...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support of the Library Set functions required to run TSM server in a cluster environment

The resetdrive parameter in the Define Library command is supported on all platforms, but a drive device which is actually reset is only on AIX and Windows. On Solaris and Linux, the drive reset function does not work.To run TSM server on the clus...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

FCM: ZFS Support for Solaris

THE main volume manager for clustered systems is zfs. Without this support FCM for Solaris only can be used in a very small amounts of Solaris systems.
almost 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

retrieve netware archive over windows client

We want to retrieve files and directories from netware archives (without trustees) with use of a windows tsm client.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Include NAS Backups statistics in the data collection of Monitoring and Reporting.

Currently, the results from NAS Backups (NDMP) stored in the summary table is not collected in the WAREHOUS database. As such, it's also not possible to produce any custom reports on NAS Backups. Collecting the rows from the summary table where ac...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

FB & TSM Integration change node name

When driving FastBack integration with TSM through the Admin Centre, when creating a policy a user can't change the name of the node name. The name of the node is 'pulled' from FastBack. An option that I'd like to see is being able to define the n...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

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