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    TSM Spectrum Protect Integrated/Native High Availability Capability

    Native TSM high availability. If a TSM Server fails in any way, the TSM Clients, Backups, Restores, HSM and other TSM production, can continue, maybe on another server, maybe a pool of TSM Servers that take over.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 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 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    TSM Data protection for VMware FLR interface performance Improvement

    We are using the FLR interface for recovering files from DP for VMware snapshot backups. From the FLR interface login page, after the click on "connection" button, it's take a long time (nearly 3 minutes) to display the next pages. Is it possible ...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Allow Use of Single Oracle User for FCM for Oracle ASM

    Customer has standardized on a single Oracle user for managing both ASM and the Oracle DB and wants to do the same with FCM.
    almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

    Support of FCM Oracle RAC Cloning into mutiple RAC Node Target Clusterr

    Customer would like the ability to clone into a multiple node RAC cluster.
    almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

    Detail results not appearing when using proxy for backup

    The backups are working properly, but Operations Center does not graph results from proxy node backups. Operations Center version as 7.1.3TSM Server version as 7.1.3.0. Found hits pointing to DOC APAR IT07424, which indicates that this is a known ...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Using Powershell DataSpaceUsage in TDPSQL breaks fundamental requirements

    TDP for Databases (MSSQL) makes use of powershell API call "DataSpaceUsage" prior to executing the Backup Log command to the virtual tape interface. The resulting query against the database allocation unit structures suffers from blocking while se...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Add dsmGroupHandler calls for archive objects, or a way to retrieve the last written ObjID

    dsmGroupHandle() API calls are only implemented for backup type of objects.There is only a comment in the manual saying that this can be done in other ways using archives, but no examples? The dsmEndTxn() API calls, returns the groupLeaderObjId, w...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Reporting availability in the TSM administration console

    Unlike other tools, if the standard minimal reporting can be incorporated with the TSM server admin console. Like media information(Vault & scratch), DB backup status, Backup status, etc. Some of the informations, we will get it from the opera...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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