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Prevent reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES to kill restore tasks

Whenever a reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES finishes, restore of SQL data fails. Disabling reorg for this DB is not practical, since restore tasks are starting up 24/7, and the tsm admin does not know when. Some other tool must be present to prevent t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Use TDP4HANA without ssh connections

Please change installation routine for TDP4HANA so setup.sh script does not require ssh connection to be able to work. Ideally you want to have the option if you want to use ssh to run remote commands (on remote or local hosts) or is you want to r...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM does not allow versioning of file-attributes only

TSM does not offer any possibility to do a backup with version control for only(!) the standard UNIX-file-permissions. In fact, TSM does not allow to backup the file-perms only, with or without versioning.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Multiple data movers

Multiple data movers
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enumerate VMs to be backed up

Enumerate VMs to be backed up
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

ESS/Scale Crit Sit AB9147 opened 3/4/21 - Temperature Sensor Failure message requires replacing entire enclosure.

Problem Description:Management GUI shows rsrch1 GL6S ESS 3 Enlosure 78R0299 needs service. Shows temperature sensors 5, 7, 11 and 15 failed. The issue is that for a minor problem with temperature sensors failing a major service event bringing the ...
about 3 years ago in ESS 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Space Management - file expiration

The current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) has a migfileexpiration option that "Specifies the number of days a copy of a migrated or premigrated file remains in storage after it is modified on your local file system, or deleted from yo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Not under consideration

Include Date/Time Stamp option on Sessions panel

A Timestamp column is available on the Session Details panel. However, this column is not available on the main Sessions panel. Please allow the customer the option to customize columns with Timestamp as an option.
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Automatic Backup of DB when Active Log becomes full

when the Active Log become full the TSM Server Crashes. why not implement the same functionality as Archive Log ?? Archive Log when it reaches 80% a database backup is triggered to be able to reclaim space
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

ISP OC Autodeployment should work with TDP installed

The auto deploy fails if for example a TDP for Oracle is installed.dsmtrace.cpp ( 146): DeployMgr psupdatemgr.cpp(1179): Terminating update manager. Detected installed package(s) 'tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.tools.aix.64bit tivoli.tsm.client.oracle.a...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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