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Storage Protect Family

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Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM under SPP

VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM : This option allowss Sp for VE tolerates VM with RDMs. It is necessary because these SO VMs can't be saved with SPP.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

export server does not include scripts etc.

When running export server in order to import srversettings in an brand new server not everything is includen. I miss scripts, proxy settings, servr and node groups from the data exported out of the old server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

The enhancement of the status of the backup job on the TSM Operations Center

System: TSM Operations Center(OC)Actor: The user who wants to check the status of the backup job on the TSM OC. The TSM OC is a new console of Tivoli Storage Manager. Description: When we run the backup commands (jobs) using the TSM B/A client (CL...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

backup and restore to windows cifs share without explicitly using net use

Currently in order to backup a windows cifs share, to do a snapdiff or otherwise, you need to issue a "net use" as a pre command to a scheduled backup. This is an extra step in configuration/scripting that shouldn't be necessary. This also makes i...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Ability to encrypt and store dsmadmc user credentials in a local file

By default the TSM baclient encrypts node user credentials in a locally stored file. Unfortunately this functionality is not present with admin user credentials when using the Admin Client (dsmadmc). In order to automate dsmadmc commands within sc...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Customization of Client Auto-deployment Schedule

We would like to modify the auto deploy schedule in order to make it successful in our environment.In our infra, we do have multiple nodes configured for same host, hence multiple CAD services are running.After version 8.1.11, we are unable to sta...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

FreeBSD support for TSM Client

FreeBSD support for TSM Client
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Better estimation on tape capacity

At the moment TSM does not do any true estimation or ongoing estimation on the capacity of a tape.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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