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Add capability in the dsmadmc shell for command completion.

The CLI is currently the best way of managing TSM – but it is basic by today's standards. If we have to run TSM from the CLI, then the ‘shell' should offer things like ‘tab completion' of commands, filter capability (INC/EXCL on command output), t...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Option to only delete clone mappings

FlashCopy Manager creates a system copy by performing a FlashCopy in the Storage System. This implies that the Storage System (like SVC) creates a copy relation between a source and target LUN. Some customers require to remove this copy relation t...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scalability with NFS/NDMP

We have experienced significant scalability challenges with our TSM client backing up NFS filesystems when exceeding around 20M files and with NDMP backups starting around 60M files (unless the backup server is essentially dedicated, which is not ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to delete EXPORT volumes

I would like IBM to give TSM an ability or command to delete volumes marked as EXPORT based on the volume number. "DELETE VOLUME XXX discarddata=yes" does not work because exports are not part of any storage pools and "delete volhistory todate=XXX...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Oracle: create spfile from pfile after cloning

FlashCopy Manager is able to create clone databases for Oracle and DB2 databases. For Oracle databases it would be more efficient to have an option to create the spfile from pfile after the database is cloned.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Add silent install for HSM for Windows with no reboot

The msiexec should allow for a silent install without reboot for HSM for Windows as it does for the TSM Client. The desire is to automatically install using Tivoli Configuration Manager with no reboot. The reboot would be done later before the HSM...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 2 Not under consideration

Backup Client for Debian Linux

Debian und viele andere Linuxdistributionen (z.B. Ubuntu, Univention, Knopix, ...) nutzen nicht das RedHat Packeage format rpm, sondern ein anderes Format namens .deb. Damit ist man bei der Erstellung der Pakete immer auf zusätzliche Konvertierung...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments should support nested VMFolder structure

When doing the VMware Backup using TSM for Virtual Environments with the "VMFOLDER" option we backup only machines residing directly in that VMFOLDER. Many cutomers are using a nested folder concept (Folders inside a Folder). TSM for VE does not r...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Virtualized Application Support

Currently the vStorage API for Data Protection creates VMware snapshots before TSM moves the data to TSM Pools. These VMware snapshots are able to create a filesystem data consistency or an application consistency if the application is VSS aware. ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

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