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Cancel TSM Admin Schedules/Scripts

Introducing the ability to cancel an administrative schedule or a script rather than having to manually cancel all of the processes a schedule/script might create. For this to work, would most likely need the introduction of a script/schedule id t...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Allow Superuser to configure vdisk_protection_enabled

Please allow user "Superuser" only to configure/modify the attribute "vdisk_protection_enabled" parameter.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Storwize V7000 migration logging messages

More detailed monitoring/logging of migration tasks.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

tsm 4 vm: disable fallback to full backup when incremental fails

When an incremental backup fails (because of some vmware problem - the reason that it exists is not to be discussed here) - TSM client shows warning (“ANS9387W Incremental backup unsuccessful for virtual machine 'vm_machine'. Performing Full backu...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

TSM support enhancement for version 5.5: client, server and storageagent in relation to TSM version 6.3

Our main GSE Installation-Base are already on version 5. Some Costumers has Problems with the upgrade to version 6. To establish a more sophisticated upgrade plan we want to establish a longer Support cycle of version 5 over 31.12.2012
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

For a CLI restore node command allow the filelist file to have over 1,000 entries. ANR4948E is currently the error returned.

Create a new system parameter, say MAXLISTEN, which can default to 1000 for maximum lines in a file list file for a restore node request; but is client modifiable say up to 100000 or even more
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

TSM Client compatibility with the yet to be released version of Windows 2012

We wil be testing windows 2012 nextyear and rolling it out sometime in 2014. Need to know if TSM is compatible
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

Need to shorten disruptive time when reconfiguring nodes

System : IBM Storwize seriesActor : User needs to improve I/O wait time during Storwize microcode (SVC code) upgrading. When concurrent SVC code upgrading on Storwize storage series, we need to "reconfigure" a node to the cluster after code update...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

ACL restores @ single file restore

In case of a single file restore, the Windows Explorer do not allow to copy ACLs in a normal copy-and-paste operation.So it is needed to use a 3rd party product (xcopy, robocopy,..) to "copy" the files from backup to productive location. This is i...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Adaptive Subfile Backup support larger file sizes

Increase the maximum file size supported by SubFile backup. We have customers using TSM to backup outlook.ost files and archive*.pst files. The file size is over the 2GB limit of Adaptive Subfile Backup, but we have many of these files and they ch...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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