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Match return codes with documentation

Currently there is a disparity in the documentation vs the actual behaviour. As such I would like to see this recitified.I would like, that the following be changed in so that the 'return code 4 explanation is as follows: "The operation completed ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Restore Volume only allows the restore of one volume at a time.

Restore Volume only allows the restore of one volume at a time. This is not at all efficient. Multiple volume restore needs to be supported.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM support of NAS environment variable thru NDMP (EMC)

Customer Natixis (large Bank) is using TSM as their enterprise backup solution. They are also using Celerra NAS from EMC and use migration/HSM features of those devices between different CIFS network shares to lower the price of the hardware. For ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

HSM Issue w/Double Take

Product : DoubleTakeNew Feature required DoubleTake - provides real-time byte level replication from one server to another using our HSM for Windows Archiving product as an engine. Description:When a file is migrated by HSM for Windows it is not d...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 2 Not under consideration

For legal reasons we may be asked to change the retention period to unlimited for an EXISTING backup (and not do a new backup

See attached document
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Contact-Field for VMs in VM-Backup

Add a contact email field for a vm filespace that allows to notify a user about the backup state.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Use pattern/glob to decide which scratch tapes to allocate

Be able to set a tape label pattern/glob against each TSM instance or storage pool, for tapes that it will use to allocate from the scratch pool. This would mean tapes could be seperated between instance or storage pool even though a library is sh...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Tapes in a copy pool that go empty and not reclaimed by tape reclaim never get get returned to scratch.

Tapes in a copy pool that go empty and not reclaimed by tape reclaim never get get returned to scratch. They do not get retrieved from off site because no process is run against them.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

In the DRM lifecycle, Once the tapes arrive from the Courier, the status should change from "Courier Retrieve" to "on site

In the DRM lifecycle, Once the tapes arrive from the Courier, the status should change from "Courier Retrieve" to "on site retrieve" BUT, if you do that, and don't put them straight into the library, TSM loses track of those tapes. A possible solu...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

FCM for tdpsql can't work with multiple dsm.opt files

There is no command-line option nor any other option/possibility to tell FCM for tdpsql (6.4.0.0) to use the settings from a specific dsm.opt. In previous versions this was possible using the deprecated tdpsql.exe GUI, however by deprecating this ...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

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