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Storage Protect Family

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Sort the list of options displayed by the "QUERY OPTION" command in alphabetical order.

The list of options displayed in the output of the QUERY OPTION server command should be sorted in alphabetical order.It is error-prone, frustrating, and time-consuming to review the option settings currently as they are displayed in seemingly ran...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Implement recall thread timeout on HSM service driver.

Explanation first: Whenever a file is recalled on the OS file system level (e.g. double clicked in explorer) this sets of a driver call defined by the reparse point definition in the "STUB" file. This causes the kernel mode driver to request the H...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 2 Not under consideration

Ability to restore Solaris Active file permissions using PIT

To be able to restore permissions on Unix file system based on date (Using PIT restore) OR for TSM to force a backup of a file where the permissions have changed, to create an inactive copy. Currently TSM only keeps a single copy of permissions fo...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support for MultiBos in TDP for ERP

Current install procedures do now allow for the copying of binaries for support of MultiBos which is used extensively in Neslte as a critical part of the build and staging process of support for the AIX infrastructure
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

define snapdiff and other snap options on a per filesystem basis rather than per backup command

When running an incremental backup be able to define the snapdiff or other snap option on a per filesystem basis rather than for the whole backup incremental job.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

A single DB2 id for working with multiple TSM 6.2 instances

Currently TSM 6.2 instances use instance owner to issue db2 commands.As there can be multiple instances to check , monitor and issue commands to I request to provide a way to use one db2 id to issue commands to mulltiple TSm instances
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

TSM Archive from Incremental

HelloI wan to suggest , an ARCHIVE to be made from the Daily incremental backup.Many customers want to run specific archive for specific folder .Since the data is ALREADY backed up via the daily incremental backup , it will be wise to "copy" the d...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Request for Live Partition Mobility (LPM) support for TSM

Customer would like TSM to support LPM support.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

enhancement of query session command

Add a new option for query session command with wild card to make it user friendly.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance TSM Admin schedules so that system commands can be ran

Currently, the only way to make TSM execute system commands is via client schedules or the define client action command.I propose that the same functionality that exists in the client schedules is added to the admin schedules so that system comman...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration