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TSM 6 space reclamations very slow

Space reclamation of a normal (non-dedupe) storage pool from a deduplicated storage pool is very slow. In our environment we have onsite deduplicated pools and offsite copies that are made daily and taken off site. The impact is that only tapes wi...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM for ERP: Support for MSSQL database

Currently TSM for ERP (SAP) is available for Windows platforms but only if SAP is used in conjunction with Oracle or DB2 databases.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

FCM Win: Support for Oracle Database

Currently FlashCopy Manager support MSSQL Server and MS Exchange on Windows, but no Oracle Databases. Also: Support for SAP BR'Tools must be considered if Oracle is used in conjunction with SAP.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

FCM: Support for SE target sets on DS8K Series

Currently for IBM DS8k Storage Systems the supported Copy Functions are FULL and INCR. The DS8k Series also provides SE (Space Efficient) target sets which currently is not supported by FlashCopy Manager.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TSM file devclass support for multiple directories

When defining file type of devclass, the directory options can be multiple directories. define devc fileclass devtype=file directory=/back1,/back2 Currently the backup will not use the second directory /back2 unless its size is smaller than /back1...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

AIX support for ibm HH LTO5

IBM HH LTO 5 is currently only supported X Series.Request to work on AIX.
over 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) ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 4 Not under consideration

FCM: Unix/Linux: Support for csh Shell

Currently FCM supports ksh and bash as Unix/Linux shell. Some customers standardized the csh shell in their environment due to SAP history. Unfortunately some scripts which perform recovery on the clone system (during FCM cloning) fail if the data...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Improvements needed for planfile scripts for Tivoli Storage Manager

The process of building a server, extracting and using the DRM planfile scripts, and recovering the TSM server is convoluted and difficult, especially when you are in a time-critical recovery test or event. These procedures should be re-created as...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

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