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Support for Oracle DB on Windows

The feature we are requisting is full support for Oracle 10 and higher on Windows Server OS'es. We are right now using Oracle 10g on windows 2003 64bit and 11g on 2008 R2.The feature should contain scheduling, management of Flashcopy versions and ...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Schedule options filed enhancement to store more virtual machine names

When using the new frontend for TSM for VE for creating a scheduled backup the frontend uses the options filed to store necessary parameters like: Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=DC_BERLIN -domain.vmfull="VM=vm_name1,vm...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM Enhancement Request for virtual mount for Windows

Army ITA has a large Pentagon Telecomunications Center customer who has 34 bit Windows 2003 and moving to 64 bit Windows 2008. They are requesting virtual mount for Windows similar to what is currently availalbe for Unix. The current requirement f...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Email alerting

Alert when job fails as a supplement to reports.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Create fixlets for TSM version upgrades

Would like for Tivoli to provide Tivoli Endpoint patch management fixlets to upgrade TSM clients to new versions.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

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...
about 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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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