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Storage Protect Family

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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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Command to Identify tapes for Restore(not the SQL/DB2 query)

I am looking for a command to fetch the restore tapes of a client required to restore a file from TSM server.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 2 Not under consideration

Deleting obsolete management class generates ANR0830W messages

TSM 5.5.0 - In Policy Domain STANDARD an old, now defunct, management class was added (000IFRDATA001). The only server which it serviced (000IFRDATA001) was removed from TSM. All nodes in Policy Domain STANDARD covered and serviced by remaining ma...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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

Use SSH keys linked to a user account to allow scripting to be developed without specifying account passwords in the code.

Use SSH keys linked to a user account to allow scripting to be developed without specifying account passwords in the code.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the MOVE DATA and RECLAIM STG commands

A version 6 server doing dedup presents new challenges to the admin to manage the server's storagepools. These enhancements will enable the admin to target whole volume operations to achieve maximum thruput. Improve the volume selection for both i...
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