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File sync tools and Spectrum Scale permissions

Copying data in Spectrum Scale, especially from external sources, can be problematic at times due to the way permissions work. This is particularly a problem when data needs to be synced through time in preparation for cutting over from a new exte...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GFS2 Support with TSM

GFS2 File systems are not supported with TSM currently and would like to see if we could enhance the support in future TSM versions. We are running TSM server version 6.2.4 now ( will be upgrading to 6.3 by next month) and client version used is 7...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual Environments Restoring a single VMDK

I am trying to restore just 2VMDKS ( 70GB in total) for a virtual machine but I fail if I do not have the storage capacity to restore the whole virtual machine ( approx 840GB) .
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM reports RC4 rather than RC12 Failed when an NFS volume mounts okay, but permission to underlying directories is denied

NFS share backup scheduled backup not reporting a failure when TSM server cannot back up directory due to permission denied. The event table reports the schedule with a return code 4. The permission to the underlying directories (NetApp qtrees) mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM Server "Define Clientaction" Command Issue

System: TSM Server all versions Actor: Define Clientaction Command need to be trimmed with "REQUIRED" parameters. Description: TSM Server, "define clientaction" command is not having any required paramters right now. If we run "define clientaction...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

this applies to Spectrum CDM: Show Jobs IDs and SLA Policies IDs in CDM GUI

Client remark: When a user defines in Spectrum CDM GUI a new backup or restore job, and also when a user defines a new "SLA Policy", a unique ID is assigned to the job and a unique ID is assigned to the SLA Policy. Both IDs are used @ storage subs...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

TSM for VE: Enhance Scheduling with vCenter Tags

In vCenter is is possible to set "Tags" or "Custom Attributes" to a VM. E.g. Productive, Preproductive, Test. It would be great if these Tags can be used within a Schedule of a TSM for VE Backup.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Autoskip integrity for Exchange DAG backups

An option like /AUTOSKIPINTEGRITYCHECK would be nice to have in Exchange DAG setups, so that the DP agent/FCM itself could check if the specified database/databases has/have 2 or more healthy copies - if it that would be the cause, it would automa...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

TSM FileClient for high resolution displays

We use Lenovo X1 Notebooks with high resolution displays. The TSM Fileclient on the Notebooks with Windows 10 is tiny. Other application fit or could scale to the resolution.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 Add ability to configure ciphers

User requesting new capability - be allowed to configure ciphers within acceptable cipher set.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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