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    TSM Server version history

    Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Tape end of life managed by TSM

    We need to know the end of life for each tape managed by tsm in order to be able to replace a tape before coming unusable.
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    image backup for physical disk volume

    One of big TSM customers is requesting to support image backup of raw in physical disk volume. The physical disk volume is pointed to /dev/hdisk in case of AIX and no drive letter/mount point in case of Windows.Today we only support image backup o...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    archive directory recursively and singular fully qualified file

    I want to be able to archive a single fully qualified file and recurse a directory in the same archive command. eg I currently have to run two archives to get the behaviour I needarchive -desc=ZZZZZZZ.ZZZZZZZ -subdir=yes /foo/apple/archive -desc=Z...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    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

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