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estimate button in TSM BA Client

Its not a new feature. In former versions (5.x) this feature exist.In former versions the button estimate was useable in the GUI so that there was the possibility to estimate the size of single folders.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Option to start DSMSERV in "standalone" or "maintenance" mode

I would like to be able to start DSMSERV with an option that disables reclamation, administrative schedules, expiration and client sessions. I know it it possible to disable reclamation, expiration and administrative schedules by editing the dsmse...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to delete files by management class to the delete filespace command

Add option to restrict the data deletion of the delete filespace to a specific management class or classes.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Extended firefox support

Currently the TSM AC only supports the browsers listed here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410467 As TSM can be run on a variety of OSes the supported list of non-Windows browsers (only Firefox (FF) 2 (from October 2006) and F...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

can se all (including Libsharing session from/to LibMGR)

After network errors you may have sessions between LIBMGR and LIBCL in a hanging state or waiting for Hours . You are not able to cancel these type of session with the “can se all” command. In large environments or with many hanging sessions you h...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Provide a server command to reassign ownership of a filespace

Provide a server function/command to move ownership of an existing filespace from one node to another. This need for this function occurs due to host server consolidation in a data center. When old fileservers are retired, it is not uncommon for t...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Modify IFS (ithsmdrv.sys) filter driver to block stub file extended attribute changes when not initiated by TSM

Within the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows product, there exists a limitation which does not support Mac OS X clients (from OS X 10.6 onwards) to access NTFS v5 file systems which contain HSM stub files due to the manner by which Mac OS...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 3 Not under consideration

allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Lift 1TB limit on Image Backups for Veritas Volumes on Solaris

Currently, image backups on vxfs volumes greater than 1TB in size are not allowed. (see: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?tc=SSGSG7&rs=663&uid=swg21417528#solaris_probs ) This limit needs to be removed to allow volumes greater t...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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