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Request for Live Partition Mobility (LPM) support for TSM

Customer would like TSM to support LPM support.
over 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.
over 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...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to cancel administrative schedule session

Many TSM environments use administrative schedules in conjunction with TSM scripts to perform daily maintenance activities. When running a multi-step script from an administrative schedule, the TSM server appears to use an internal session (comple...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Estimate button

Why do you have deleted on new ba client versions the button ESTIMATE? I need it, please...Thanks a lot
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Add TSM for ERP session identifier for the improved collocation

Currently, when TSM for ERP is used to backup DB2 database, it assignes the same filespace name to all backups stored on the TSM Server. This results in various undesired consequences for the backups of large databases which are normally performed...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Not under consideration

Copy Stgpool enhancements

Need more options TSM copy pools.1. Command to list-tapes not copied.-Percentage of data not copied.-Number of files not copied.-Number of copies available 2. Option to promote Copypool as primary pool in case of DR and resync and revert to primar...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change node deduplication to none with in a diskpool

Instead of having to assign a client to a separate pool that does not have deduplication enabled, an option should be available to set a node's deduplication field to none example: Update node <nodename> deduplication=none
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Simultaneous Write for Lanfree Backup

Currently TSM supports Simultaneous Write during Backup to several Pools only in LAN-Backup mode. The Lanfree Storage Agents do not support Simultaneous Write.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

FCM support for Oracle DataGuard

The customer would like to use FCM with Oracle DataGuard to take point in time copies of Oracle DataGuard (source or target volumes).
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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