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Encrypted NDMP backups

Support of encrypting storage pools used for NDMP backups.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Flash Copy cold backup for Oracle while running in NOARCHIVELOG mode

We have several Oracle databases running in NOARCHIVELOG mode that we need to perform a cold backup on via flash copy manager. Oracle said this is a supported operation but Flash Copy Manager looks to see if Oracle is running in Archive mode or no...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

devclass with new nocheck parameter

Hi, I need a library or devclass parameter which will override the necessary volume mount (and the label check) on the server in a storage agent environment. I would be very nice to install a virtual central tsm server without san and storage agen...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

capacity calculation with file pool and private volumes

Hi, i need a devclass file parameter which will influence the calculation of free space in file pools. I implement file pools with private volumes only. The maxscratch parameter is null. It works very fine but the space calculation is very bad. Th...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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