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Prevent massive Tape cleaning requests after Tape read error

When a Tape read error occurs, TSM loads the tape to another Tape drive and issues a cleaning request for the first drive. This process will be repeated for all remaining tape drives.TSM should discover this situation and mark the tape as unreadab...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

new authority class "QUERY" for query and select privilege

In order to restrict the query and select commands for all the administrators having only client owner authority I put "QUERYAuth<br /> Storage" in dsmserv.opt. In order to monitor the server activity, I    have defined the ad...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Operational backup restart Delegation

Operational Delegation the ability to restart backup from the Admin Center, monitor daily schedules, and easy click restart within the admin center.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for MQ

Hi,We would like do MQ backups online with TSM.It is possible on next TSM releases? Thanks
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Allow ANS1946W "skipped file" messages to be disabled on restore to increase performance

Restores of file systems with very large numbers of files can be unnecessarily slowed if the "-ifnewer" or "-replace=no" options are used and a large portion of the target file system already contains files. A recent restore attempt of a 6 million...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

vCenter plugin does not display modified schedules properly

Problem: vcentre plugin does not display modified schedules When I add a filter to the plugin to exclude VMs from backup, it update the schedule in TSM Server but it is not always reflected in the plugin.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Manager Preempts

For TSM server preempts, I suggest that restores should always be able to preempt along with server database backups and should not be turned off with the NOPREEMPT option. Even better, develop several levels of preempts that allow a finer control...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SVC - Storage Pool alerting

Ability to set an alert level for maximum IO Rate or MB Rate for a configured mdisk Pool
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Provide ability to change email subjects dynamically on TSM reports using TCR

We have transitioned from using scripts to generate email reports for successful/failed backups on a daily basis to use TSM Reporting using TCR/ITM. While our current scripts are easily able to generate dynamic email subjects to mention that yeste...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to cancel the offload tape backup with FCM

When a backup process is offloaded to a backup server, it may take several hours. For example with a customer, each offload process takes 8 to 12 hours. At time, we need to cancel it when we try to backup development applications to make sure that...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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