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Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add "browse" support for fields in the VM Restore Destination dialog box in the BA Client "Restore VM" function.

The current dialog box in the TSM BA cient for selecting the destination parameters when restoring a VM to an alternate location (Restore to "Following location") do not provide any lookup or "browse" capability, requiring the user to remember and...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

FCM's IBMVSS needs to be able to specify various grain size's to SVC during the flash copy

The Flash Copy manager application passes in a 64KB grain size to the SVC on Flash Copies by default. We are currently at SVC code 7*. This uses considerably more bit-map memory than the 256KB grain size than in previous SVC code levels. IBMVSS ( ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Virtual image restore without ISCSI windows system

Due to Performance and handling we would perfere to use a LINUX Proxy to restore single objects from Image backup. today a Windows Proxy and a Linux Proxy is required to restore a Linux file.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT SETS NON TSM FOR VE NODE PLATFORM TO "TDP VMWARE"

TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT SETS NON TSM FOR VE NODE PLATFORM TO "TDP VMWARE"
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

tsm server registered the tdp for ms sql as winnt-platform

tsm server registered the tdp for ms sql as winnt-platform
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

SVC Copy on Write

Would like SVC functionality to have the ability to change a relation in full mode to a copy on write relationship
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Multi-session retrieve

Sometimes we may want to retrieve a full directory from previous archive session. Actually even if the files are spread over multiple tapes, the retrieve is done only on tape at a time instead of using multiple sessions to retrieve from multiple t...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3 and ACSLS 8.3 Linux

Support for ACSLS 8.3 running on RedHat Linux under TSM Server 6.3 running on Redhat Linux.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

export node collocation group name

The "collocation group name" field of a node should be exported to the target server when "export node" command is executed on a source server. If the collocation group doesn't exist on the target server it should be created (like e.g. cloptset).
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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