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ANS1360I message only in clientlog, but not in Servers actlog

following message in dsmsched.log: 11/23/2011 21:02:26 Normal File--> 47,610 \\server1\c$\xxx\file_name.pdfANS1360I Compressed Data Grew It is not possible to monitor this error automatically, because its only in clients error log. also it is a...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

exclude.archive.dir

Provide an exclude.archive.dir option. Without that exclude all other directories, beside the one which should be archived, are scanned and archived. That is particularly an unwanted behaviour when one want to archive a folder from a NetApp snapsh...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Change TSM Server-based Library Manager behaviour

Please change the behaviour of the TSM Server-based acting in a library manager only role to not require read/write access to the tape drives during normal operations. Currently, TSM server performing library manager only function (no servicing ba...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE support Citrix

I am Lab Advocate of TSMC(Taiwan Semiconductor) who is the big customer in GCG, who used TSM more than 15 years, now customer is using Citrix for Desktop Cloud solution, but they have to still use traditional way to backup the data, they want to T...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Timestamp of the creation of a copy of an archive or backup object

RPO is one of the key characteristics of a TSM server-based B&R solution. In order a guarantee a specific RPO, it is important to be able to report on the state of the backed up or archived objects in a TSM Server repository. Specifically, it ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle DB on Windows

The feature we are requisting is full support for Oracle 10 and higher on Windows Server OS'es. We are right now using Oracle 10g on windows 2003 64bit and 11g on 2008 R2.The feature should contain scheduling, management of Flashcopy versions and ...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Schedule options filed enhancement to store more virtual machine names

When using the new frontend for TSM for VE for creating a scheduled backup the frontend uses the options filed to store necessary parameters like: Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=DC_BERLIN -domain.vmfull="VM=vm_name1,vm...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Exchange 2010 with DAG backup active/passive DBs

TSM for Mail is currently making a difference if a mailbox database is active or passive (Exchange 2010 using DAG). So for each kind of backup there will be kept the defined number of versions. (e.g. 7 Versions should be kept, so if the database i...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Track tape errors for scratch volumes

Currently, read and write errors are tracked for volumes only while they are defined in storage pools. Returning volumes to scratch causes this information for those volumes to be lost. It would be extremely useful to be able to track this data fo...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Enhancement Request for virtual mount for Windows

Army ITA has a large Pentagon Telecomunications Center customer who has 34 bit Windows 2003 and moving to 64 bit Windows 2008. They are requesting virtual mount for Windows similar to what is currently availalbe for Unix. The current requirement f...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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