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    Individual file backup/restore of system files in W2K8 and W2012

    TSM 6.4 running on Windows 2008 R2 Standard. Effective with Windows Vista and higher (including Windows 2008), files that are identified as "System" files by Windows are automatically excluded from the filesystem backup. The files are backed up on...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    TDP VMware INSTANT VM Rostore of ESX with EMC Multipathing

    The current setup of the TDP Vmware IBM Spectrum Protect V 8.1.2.0 ,Instant restore works for iscsi goes through the NMP, but the original datastore is using EMC powerpath, which is no-native multipathing, We need the enhancement for the IBM Spect...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Support for EMC Atmos cloud storage platform

    Customer requested support for TSM to use Atmos cloud storage as they are migrating off of EMC Centerra device.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    TDP-R3 should not consider the SAP Oracle DB backup which is failed for control files for retention count.

    We are taking SAP Oracle DB backup using TDP-R3 along with BRbackup utility and RMAN. Backup attempted to create an auto backup of SPFILE and control file which got failed, but the backup continued running and TDP instructed to store backup pieces...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

    Implement SNMP on SVC/Storwize

    Please implement readonly SNMP V2 server on the device to allow for asset management and discovery
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Keepalive option for Library client mount requests

    Require library client sessions to use a keepalive or retry mechanism to keep from being timed out by firewalls. Library client is in one part of the network, library manager is in another, separated by firewall. Security rules insist that a timeo...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Keep alive packets

    I would like the client and server to send and answer keep alive packets on the main restore connection so that stateful firewalls will not time out the connection when the restore takes a long time due to many tape mounts or other reasons. It's o...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

    Tivoli Flashcopy Manager support for DS8K Space Efficient Flashcopy

    Client is in a Banking industry and a large customer of TSM and DS8K deployed site.( with several hundred TBs )The bank wishes to consider using FCM with Oracle / DB on AIX / Solaris Platform with DS8K SE Flashcopy Currently, FCM does not support ...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    TSM VE Support - include option to specify a DATACENTER in option file

    There currently is no include option to specify a DATACENTER. Please add it
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Improve the DRP extraction

    DR plan scripts is based on the assumption that TSM is recovered to the original TSM server system where the group, the user who owns the instance, the directories and the instance already exist.I think it is good to add commands to check if the g...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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