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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

SVC Command Serialization (SYS4580)

Optional Serialization of Commands to aid in automation.For example, being able to have a migrateextent complete before returning would greatly simplify automation of migration, as this single thread approach saves a lot of logic.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Enhance "identify duplicates" to allow "wait = yes"

Enhance the "identify duplicates" command with "wait=yes" capability.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Broader authorization support with better/custom roles (RBAC)

Allow TSM to allow for RBAC
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE should automatically enable changed block tracking for eligible VMs when an incremental backup is attempted.

TSM for VE should automatically enable changed block tracking for eligible VMs when an incremental backup is attempted and chnged block tracking is not already enabled.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Is a defect

TSM for VE support Citrix

I am Lab Advocate of TSMC(Taiwan Semiconductor) who is the big customer in GCG, who used TSM more than 15 years, now customer is using Citrix for Desktop Cloud solution, but they have to still use traditional way to backup the data, they want to T...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

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.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

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