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q archive to have a summary view per description

have an option to "q archive" of -summary. This would then output the same information as q archive but in a summary format per description rather than per file egTotal Size - Last Archive Date - Time - File count - Expires on - Description 565 M ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add "number of copies/locations/storagepools" to q archive client output

We want to be able to be able to see from the client how many locations an archive is stored. A location being a storage pool. ie if it's in two storage pools it is in 2 locations. An additional detail parameter could be displayed as egStoragepool...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Allow TSM client logs to be brought back to server for analysis when server staff do not have access to client file system

Allow TSM staff to bring back and use the TSM client logs to determine issues and error conditions at the time of backup failures
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 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.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

snapdiff to update last backup fields in filespace data

Could you please update the TSM snapdiff client to update the lastbackup information of filespaces when a "query filespace f=d" is issued. This would be the obvious behaviour and would be inline with the documented meaning of the columns This limi...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

fcmcli to display date/time of backup

1. FCM for custom apps to display the date/time the flash backup was taken when using fcmcli. 2. Allow TSM offloaded backups to run under root so all files are backed up (as the app ID doesnt always have ability to backup all files) and to do incr...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration