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Storage Protect Family

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Allow dedupe of objects ovr 2TB

Dedupe processing should handle objects of any size.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

It takes a long time to start / terminate TSM Server after DB backup

After db backup, TSM server does not quickly start or terminate because of waiting for expanding a truncated log of DB2. A real case at solaris environment is that it took 14 minutes to stop TSM server. That means it wiil also take 14 minutes to s...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add 'Are You Sure' to TDP GUI closeout

If the user closes the GUI, need a prompt to the user asking 'are you sure you want to close, you have processes running' if there's a process running such as a restore. This would help prevent accidental cancellation of a process, which occurred ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Data on client option and feature exploitation

There have been over the years a large number of TSM client options and enhancements whose use is not easily recognized by a TSM server. For example, if a Windows TSM client is using journal-based backups, that�s not obvious to TSM server administ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Execute DB2 commands and send output sent to activity log

Be able to execute DB2 commands from dsmadmc sessions and have output sent to activity log. There is useful information about the DB2 database that can�t be displayed with existing query commands.� Either build additional query commands or provide...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

IBRIX file system type shown as "unknown" when we do q fi command from DSMC prompt

IBIRX file system should show its type as 'Ibrix' rather than un known file system when we do a do q fi command from DSMC prompt
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TDP agents should update capacity and percentages

Tivoli Data Protection agents should update (provide) a capacity of each filespace or equivalent and a percentage used or else a current size and mark it as 100% used. This would aid in TSM server capacity planning as well as helping TSM administr...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add 2 additional fields to a node for permitting or not permitting the ability to perform backups or archives

Add 2 additional fields to a node for permitting or not permitting the ability to perform backups or archives. There are cases where I would like to disable the ability to perform an archive on a node basis. If I want to do that there is no reason...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Return Messages to Console

In TSM 5.5.1 when customer issues F ADSMS01.APPL=cmd there is nothing in the external data queue to process. Prior to 5.5 customer used automation to respond to the command results on the external data queue. Customer needs the messages restored.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Slient install stop TSM Client Scheduler

When performing a silent install certain files such as the dscenu.txt file are not updated because the client scheduler service is running and has the file open. When performing a GUI install it prompts to stop the service before it continues, but...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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