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Storage Protect Family

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Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use.

Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use. This is along the same lines as PING server command, but engineered for client testing. It could validate the presence of the scheduler, or dsmcad to enable checks...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add capability in the dsmadmc shell for command completion.

The CLI is currently the best way of managing TSM – but it is basic by today's standards. If we have to run TSM from the CLI, then the ‘shell' should offer things like ‘tab completion' of commands, filter capability (INC/EXCL on command output), t...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scalability with NFS/NDMP

We have experienced significant scalability challenges with our TSM client backing up NFS filesystems when exceeding around 20M files and with NDMP backups starting around 60M files (unless the backup server is essentially dedicated, which is not ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add silent install for HSM for Windows with no reboot

The msiexec should allow for a silent install without reboot for HSM for Windows as it does for the TSM Client. The desire is to automatically install using Tivoli Configuration Manager with no reboot. The reboot would be done later before the HSM...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 2 Not under consideration

Include command (eg incremental) on query session f=d

The output of query session f=d does not include the command (incremental, restore, archive, etc.) Add the command to the output.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Scripting : Add a "FOR" construct

Add a FOR loop construct similar to UNIX/Windows scripting
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Reporting Needing for FastBack Servers on 64bit Windows 2008 R2 Systems

In order for the TSM Admin Center to communicate with a FastBack server, Tivoli Common Reporting must be installed on the FastBack server. Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) 1.2 nor 2.1 is supported on a Windows 2008 R2 operating system, even though Fa...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

TSM Traceability (SYS4340)

End to end transaction auditability / traceability between SBCE+ BSS and OSS components. This involves ensuring that all BSS/OSS components support embedding a UUID for each transaction which can be used to traceback the full lifecycle of any requ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

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