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Storage Protect Family

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NAS: NFS support for Random Volumes

Our customer wants to have support for random volumes over NFS. They are using two NAS and both are replicated via Storage Subsystem, then the file pool creates a lot of problems because of reclamation, each time TSM reclaims, the pools move a lot...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Monitoring Tivoli Storage Manager, lenght of Contact Field

In TSM Monitoring and AdminCenter Common Reporting 6.3.1, the lenght of the Node Contact field appears to be only 20 characters. Please extend it to the lenght allowed by TSM.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM provides an interface/function to drive a scsi VERIFY command to a tape

The customer is looking for a way within TSM to verify data on tape is still valid. They would like to be able to invoke the VERIFY tape scsi command via TSM to check tapes periodically over time. They plan to write data to tape and want to verify...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Client Schedule Log Date/time Stamp

I am requesting the ability of the TSM client to include the date/time stamp on each line of the schedule log when the TSM client is invoked from a script instead of a TSM schedule.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Provide a means for restoring the TSM DB without having a copy of the volume history file on hand.

There needs to be a way of recovering the TSM DB by specifying which tape to recover from. This would be similar to what was available in V5 with;> dsmserv restore db volumenames={volume_id} devc={tapedevclass} commit=yes
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Error messages for clearly incorrect include-exclude rules etc.

I've often noticed our users having trouble with exclude rules and I was wondering if you could put in some basic error reporting. Errors reported on-screen as soon as the TSM GUI is run would be ideal, as already happens with the message "ANS1036...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

'dsmcutil updatepw' returns same message for locked node and incorrect password

Our TSM for Windows installer needs to check in with all nine of our backup servers when it runs on a client machine, in order to configure the TSM client software correctly. It then saves the correct tcpserveraddress and tcpport into dsm.opt for ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Remove "Autorun.inf" from Install Package

Please remove "Autorun.inf" from the LanguagePack_xxx Folder of install packages. (ex. 6.1.5.1-TIV-TSMFB-FP001.zip) Some Anti Virus software(*) detect this file, "Autorun.inf", as a threat, and block reading the file. (*) For example, Symantec End...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Delivered

TSM support for backing up VMWare vCloud Director

Looking for TSM support for backing up VMWare vCloud Director.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Remote install (deploy) method missing for ITM agent for TSM 6.3

I was unable to add the ITM Agent for TSM6.3 to the agent depot on the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server (TEMS) and perform a remote installation with commands and messures provided by ITM.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Delivered

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