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Ability to delete EXPORT volumes

I would like IBM to give TSM an ability or command to delete volumes marked as EXPORT based on the volume number. "DELETE VOLUME XXX discarddata=yes" does not work because exports are not part of any storage pools and "delete volhistory todate=XXX...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TSM4VE for Hyper-V - enable Hyper-V host to backup VMs from other Hyper-V hosts

After extended testing with IBM support and Microsoft support, it appears that TSM4VE still uses the Windows 2008 implementation for Hyper-V backups. While running backups on multiple Hyper-V hosts, some backups fail because simultaniously an othe...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM: Smarter Reclamations when objects span tapes

If an object (a huge file, or a backup from a TDP agent, for example) spans three or more volumes, so it starts on one volume, consumes all of one or more volumes, and ends on the third (or last) volume, any reclamation of a tape containing a segm...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

change of undocumented default "backupinitiationroot" from no to yes

Upgrade from tsm 7.1 to 7.1.3 and DB2 backups fail from systems other than the TSM server itself (the tsm server can backup it;'s own database).dsmserv.opt has an undocumented optionbackupinititaionroot, and the default has changed from NO to YES....
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Smarter Tape Usage in Storage Pools

My request is that TSM be coded to look for tapes already in use, with free space available before assigning another empty scratch tape to the storage pool. For example upon filling tape1 TSM would look in the primary storage pool for the next hig...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Support for NFSv4 as AFM transport protocol

AFM currently uses NFSv3. NFSv3 is insecure and so mount point access could be gained by spoofing the IP address and a UID. We would like to request the option to alternatively used NFSv4, primary to get AFM through internal audits. This is a medi...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

GFS2 Support

WE have at least two customer interested in getting support for GFS2 filesystems.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Set correct locale for dsmcad RC script on Ubuntu 14.04

The rc.dsmcad init script does not set the locale in all cases. Since dsmcad starts dsmc, this leads to encoding errors (ANS4042E) and several files not being backed up on SuSE and Ubuntu systems. For RedHat systems, the file /etc/init.d/functions...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

TDP - Set INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS Globally

On the datamover, INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is used to allow fallback to a non-quiesced snapshot if the initial quiesce fails. Currently this option must be set on a per-VM basis. There should be an option to set this globally.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Data Manager reports should recognize GPFS & VMFS as a cluster

The report Data Manager > Reporting > TPC-wide Storage Space > File System Space > By cluster does not show GPFS clusters or VMware ESX clusters as a cluster. They are shown under By Computer. As a result, the file space in /VMFS (ESX ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

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