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TSM Traceability (SYS4340)

End to end transaction auditability / traceability between SBCE+ BSS and OSS components. This involves ensuring that all BSS/OSS components support embedding a UUID for each transaction which can be used to traceback the full lifecycle of any requ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Adding a new option to the MOVE DATA command

When you issue the move data command for tape volumes, all the data moves to other volumes and the original volume becomes empty\pending\scratch (depends on the configuration). I would it to be possible to have the volume checked out automatically...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

BMR CD for recovery of windows or linux os

what i need is a boot cd for a bare machine recovery of windows or linux . other vendors do have this feature!
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use.

Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use. This is along the same lines as PING server command, but engineered for client testing. It could validate the presence of the scheduler, or dsmcad to enable checks...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Reporting Needing for FastBack Servers on 64bit Windows 2008 R2 Systems

In order for the TSM Admin Center to communicate with a FastBack server, Tivoli Common Reporting must be installed on the FastBack server. Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) 1.2 nor 2.1 is supported on a Windows 2008 R2 operating system, even though Fa...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Change to TSM Client Code Deployment

Currently the TSM Client Deployment package is coded to check for 2GB of free space on the c:\ drive of a Windows client node. If it is not available the TSM client code will fail to install. The current auto-deployment package for 64bit Windows i...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

test RFE

test RFE
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot support for VMAX

Spectrum Protect Snapshot supports VMAX with Dell EMC Solution Enabler 8.1. Current version is 9.2. Could you update the Rocket Device Adapter Packs in order to support the new versions of Solution Enabler ? Thanks.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

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