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Provide the capability of Tivoli Sysback backing up the rootvg to USB memory stick., boot from it and restore that image.

AIX 5.3 TL-9 / AIX 6.1 TL-02 and above provide support for USB memory sticks, We need to enhance Tivoli Sysback to provide the capability of backing up the rootvg to USB memory stick and also boot from them and restore the image. 5300-09 - use AIX...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

'dsmj.log'

customer wants to have a option to have the possibility to enter the path where the 'dsmj.log' will be created
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add Node classification option to node properties

An additional option on the node to specify it as a production / non-production node. other classifications could be added to this list of possible node status's.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

A single DB2 id for working with multiple TSM 6.2 instances

Currently TSM 6.2 instances use instance owner to issue db2 commands.As there can be multiple instances to check , monitor and issue commands to I request to provide a way to use one db2 id to issue commands to mulltiple TSm instances
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Recover TSM client after network breakdown

When TSM client is running and if a network breakdown happens, when network comes back, the user has no clue to find out what has been backed up and what the TSM client is going to do (which is not restarting, by the way).
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

in using the TSM for Mail product would like to backup only specific folders in an individual's mailbox?

in using the TSM for Mail product, we would like to backup only specific folders in an individual's mailbox; Rather than backing up the entire database.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Support Linux Itanium 2 SLES 10SP3

The last TSM client version supported of Linux Itanium 2 is TSM Client 5.5http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&uid=swg21211967&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en.My client has critical server on Itanium 2 and...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support of a similar product as TSM for VE, for AIX environment

Support of a similar product as TSM for VE, for AIx environment.My client has ZoS TSM environment and AIX environment. We showed the TSM for VE for Windows. He likes the functionnality. He wants to know if there will be a support for centralize an...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Ability to restore Solaris Active file permissions using PIT

To be able to restore permissions on Unix file system based on date (Using PIT restore) OR for TSM to force a backup of a file where the permissions have changed, to create an inactive copy. Currently TSM only keeps a single copy of permissions fo...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Command to Identify tapes for Restore(not the SQL/DB2 query)

I am looking for a command to fetch the restore tapes of a client required to restore a file from TSM server.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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