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Storage Protect Family

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World Writable permissions to citScanOutput.xml

We are working with a Banking client in which access to the Backup data to other users can cause issues. The File citScanOutput.xml which gets World writeable permissions may cause an security violation
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

TSM Macro for Capacity Licensing does not differentiate between Capacity and PVU

Our team uses TSM 7.1.3.100 to backup our entire enterprise. We currently are licensed by Terabyte; however, we also use TSM for System Backup and Recovery (Sysback). Sysback is licensed by PVU. We are in the middle of an IBM Software audit and th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Use a single GUID per machine in a TDPDOM WIN86 environment

Problem title GUID flapping (repeated ANR1639I messages) Environment: Product or Service: Data Protection for Domino Windows 7.1.W Component ID: 5698DPDAP VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard Edition Lotus Domino 8.5.2 FP4 x32 TSM se...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Is a defect

TSM for VE reporting unsuccessful backup

TSM for VE, version 7.1.2, that skips VM during backup of SRM VMs generates a SUCCESFUL=NO in the summary table
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Is a defect

Correct reporting of unsupported OSes

I have been advised to submit an RfE following on from PMR 45729,001,866. We have noticed that TSM does not reliably report the OS level of unsupported OSes. As far as we are concerned, it used to do so: for example, when Mac OS X 10.9 was release...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

dsmreconcileGPFS.pl modification request

The dsmreconcileGPFS.pl script will fill up the /var filesystem during the sort process, in spite of there being more than 1GB available and I am using the "-tmpdir=" option.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Is a defect

Adding an information and steps to configure NAS option "tape.reservations" in the TSM Administrator's Guide

Tivoli Storage Manager server tape labels may be overwritten during dismount of tape if the NetApp NAS option "tape.reservations" is not set to persistent. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21419980
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

reconcile volumes behaviour with server delete grace times

The behavior of the reconcile volumes command should be changed to take into account server deletion grace time settings. Reconcile volumes command should not report errors when archive files for deleted source virtual volumes are still present on...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

How much space is needed.

When TSM issues ANR0534W size estimate exceedes stg, it would bee very nices if the estimated size was showen too.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

rename filespace not visible

Hello, We use vmware4tdp. Here we noticed when we rename a filespace (vmfull image) this filespace (image) is not visible in the restore gui nor restore command line.So we are not able to restore a image which has been renamed on TSM Server. Greet...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Is a defect

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