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API: Allow minimal access to files originally archived via TSM client.

Currently, (with certain limitations) it is possible to archive files via the TSM API and retrieve them via the standard TSM client. Unfortunately, the reverse is not possible: It is not possible to archive files via the standard TSM client and la...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

FB & TSM Integration change node name

When driving FastBack integration with TSM through the Admin Centre, when creating a policy a user can't change the name of the node name. The name of the node is 'pulled' from FastBack. An option that I'd like to see is being able to define the n...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Security around TSM Restores - Logging restores and restricting restores to Admins

Requests1) There is no way to monitor what files are being restored by what TSM admin. I notice that just a session established is logged on the server but what was restored and by whom is seen as a security risk in a area which transient staff. L...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM - group backup

The group backup of TSM spends space every file now. I suggest a change to manage one group as one object (with TOC) for the purpose of holding down the consumption of the TSM database.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

dsmc hang when NFS hard mount is fail

i want that the dsmc or dsmc sched dont hang on a failed NFS Mount.Ther should be a timout and than go on with backup.ther can be a message in errorlog.But i dont want to hang the dsmc
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM copy group parameters serialization and changedretries not honored with file is locked for read

When a file is being written to, TSM has the ability in some cases to do a fuzzy backup (serialization=dynamic). However there are exceptions if a file is locked for reading by the OS. Then TSM obviously can not get to it which is fine, but.... th...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add TSM support for Citrix Xenserver backup API

Increasing numbers of our TSM customers are using Xenserver virtualization, and would like to back it up with TSM in similar fashion to VMware backup. At this time you can only install a client into each VM, which has many disadvantages. Please ad...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Allow the TSM DEVADD command to add multiple library devices to a Solaris zone

This RFE is opened based on feedback provided by pmr 03415,072,649. We would like to see support for redundant paths to library manager devices by the TSM device drivers specifically when executing the DEVADD command. What we are trying to achieve...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Can we generate a month or year backup to TSM's archive function?

Reference FITS - MR0507106015 Can we generate a month or year backup to TSM's archive function? There are two important reasons: - A modification to backup retention or -version policies will result in (partial) data loss - TSM's backup function w...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Need way to access the tsm database via ODBC

Before TSM V6 we had a very simple way to access the tsm database via ODBC. This driver works fine with Products like MS Excel or MS Access. With V6 we only can use alternatively the ODBC Driver for DB2, which is much more complex to setup. Not al...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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