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dsmc -filelist should support files with any character in name

dsmc backup client should be able to backup files with the -filelist option where the filenames contain *, ?, " or Newline (and ^X and ^Y for the matter of fact). dsmc can backup these files when you specify the files properly quoted on the comman...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

DSMULOG to be added to Linux server versions.

DSMULOG is only AIX, this feature needs to be added to Linux server versions to provide automation options based on TSM activity without the need to run SQL code.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

SAP HANA DB Unable to restore with data integrity check

SAP hana db is unable to restore the data using the data integrity check. There is a work around which customer does not want to use. I have attached a document provided by the customer's dba team which entails the problem. I would like to know if...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

TSM Fastback support for MSSQL 2012

MEGA BANK had purchased TSM and FastBack around three year ago. The main reason MEGA chose IBM solution was due to the integrated between TSM & FastBack. This is IBM value proposition. Currently, latest FastBack version still can't support SQL...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Delivered

Install Anywhere problem: Aborted installation cant be started again (HP/UX)

An Aborted installation can be started again, but wont finish correctly. this document does not help as well, as the scripts dont work without JAVA_HOME beeing set.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21395154 Need working documentatio...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

FCM for mail with version 6.3.0.1 can not use different dsm.opt files.

FCM for mail with version 6.3.0.1 can not use different dsm.opt files. Alternate reference config and opt files are only usable with tdpexc andtdpexcc, but not for the MMC GUI for flashcopy.But this is necessary for the "mailbox browser" feature. ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

TSM reporting problem.

As I described in 02641,EUB,649, please modify the DB2 database design to allow us to able to use the real ‘Start Date' and and ‘End Date' instaed of '00:00:00' in the table of 'Node Activity' on the TSM admin center DB2 database. I was told this ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Multiple Expire Inventory processes

Option to be able to run multiple processes of EXPIRE INVENTORY. Command could be EXPIRE INVENTORY EIPR=n up to Tivoli acceptable maximum (say 5?). Default would still be one. This would also be applicable to running multiple EXPIRE INVENTORY NODE...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Limit memory usage of dsmls

"dsmls -R", called at the root directory of a file system tree with many entries, may crash the system (SLES 11 SP1 with GPFS).In the scenario of PMR 09701,SGC,724 the dsmls process consumed so much kernel memory, that Linux killed the GPFS daemon...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 4 Delivered

Query for the backed up amount of data of database backup

When we used the TSM 6.2.1.1 we used a command "QUERY VOLHIST TYPE=DBBACKUP", But since we upgraded to 6.3.1 the field that shows the backed up amount of data has been deprecated.Therefore i now have to sort through the activity log to see if it w...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

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