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leasing volume behavior

Hi, Leasing volumes goes way back many years. Basically, when a process needs a volume, it puts a "lease" on a volume, which keeps other processes (and sessions) from interfering with it. The problem you're seeing is that we don't release the leas...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

Support for installing TSM Administration Center on Tivoli Integrated Portal 2.2

We would like to be able to install TSM Administration Center 6.2, 6.3, 6.x on Tivoli Integrated Portal 2.2. ILMT is currently installed on TIP 2.2 and we would like to only have one TIP instance. Now we are forced to use 2 TIP instances. - 1 TIP ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server

We need support for this implementation:- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client, Tivoli Storage Manager API and Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle on operating system Oracle Linux 6.1;- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client on...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Machines LAN Free Backup Limitations

Faster VMware virtual machine backup. Using LAN Free, you can only start backup for as many virtual machines as you have tape drives available. This puts a severe limitation on the number of virtual machines that you can simultaneously backup. Thi...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Ability to Archive Deleted Data

I would like the ability to archive inactive data as well as active data at a directory (folder) level.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 7 Not under consideration

Provide strong authentication between TSM Server and TEC applications

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Server application should be able to provide strong authentication to Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) application, in order to provide security between both TSM and TEC servers and also to attend the ITCS 104 secti...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Password sync between NODE ADMIN and NODE.

Password generation on Administrators with NODE access, to keep it in sync with automatically updated NODE passwords. In order to prevent message ANR0470W, when using VSS backups.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SNAPDIFF on Linux - CIFS mount support

We'd like to use a Linux client to back up our Netapp storage using CIFS mounts, using the new SNAPDIFF functionality. Currently the client doesn't seem to recognize the CIFS mount as a valid Netapp volume, so the SNAPDIFF backup fails.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Is a defect

de-duplication performance improvement request

TSM de-duplication function is supposed to make back-up area more efficient,but it is slower than it was expected.(100GB/h was expected but actual is 10GB/a day)So duplicate data isn't erased and DISK almost ran out of space.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Is a defect

Patra:SAS Tape Problem

We would like TSM to supoort SAS Tape. TSM detect TS3100 as LTO device class but TSM detect SAS tape as GENERIC. So we can't restore data with different device class. SAS Tape Model:7216-1U2IBM Multi-media Enclosure - DAT160 SAS Tape Drive - HHLTO...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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