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Audit library checkl=barcode should be possible even if tapes are mounted

Audit library checklabel=barcode should be possible without dismounting all tape-drives.
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Provide a server command to reassign ownership of a filespace

Provide a server function/command to move ownership of an existing filespace from one node to another. This need for this function occurs due to host server consolidation in a data center. When old fileservers are retired, it is not uncommon for t...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Provide a server command to reassign ownership of a filespace

Provide a server function/command to move ownership of an existing filespace from one node to another. This need for this function occurs due to host server consolidation in a data center. When old fileservers are retired, it is not uncommon for t...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Archives retention periods should change when new retention period set

We recently changed the retention periods on both our backups and archives. When the backups ran they rebound the new retention period to the old backups. We would like this same thing to happen with archives.
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Modify IFS (ithsmdrv.sys) filter driver to block stub file extended attribute changes when not initiated by TSM

Within the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows product, there exists a limitation which does not support Mac OS X clients (from OS X 10.6 onwards) to access NTFS v5 file systems which contain HSM stub files due to the manner by which Mac OS...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 3 Not under consideration

add options to dsmc to register client using open registration

Open registration is a way to register nodes without intervention on the TSM server (open to the TSM server), but there is always a user interaction needed to get passwords in sync. add options to dsmc to remove the need for user interaction so th...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Journal based backup method for HP-UX platform

Journal based backup method for HP-UX platform.
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Lift 1TB limit on Image Backups for Veritas Volumes on Solaris

Currently, image backups on vxfs volumes greater than 1TB in size are not allowed. (see: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?tc=SSGSG7&rs=663&uid=swg21417528#solaris_probs ) This limit needs to be removed to allow volumes greater t...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Possibility to create FULL FC on XIV

If FlashCopy Manager is used in conjunction with XIV, then FlashCopy Manager only is able to create Space Efficient Snapshots. Unfortunately also, if FlashCopy Manager creates Clone Systems. Especially for Clones or System Copies it is important t...
about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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