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Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use.

Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use. This is along the same lines as PING server command, but engineered for client testing. It could validate the presence of the scheduler, or dsmcad to enable checks...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Reporting Needing for FastBack Servers on 64bit Windows 2008 R2 Systems

In order for the TSM Admin Center to communicate with a FastBack server, Tivoli Common Reporting must be installed on the FastBack server. Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) 1.2 nor 2.1 is supported on a Windows 2008 R2 operating system, even though Fa...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 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 2 Not under consideration

Change to TSM Client Code Deployment

Currently the TSM Client Deployment package is coded to check for 2GB of free space on the c:\ drive of a Windows client node. If it is not available the TSM client code will fail to install. The current auto-deployment package for 64bit Windows i...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

test RFE

test RFE
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot support for VMAX

Spectrum Protect Snapshot supports VMAX with Dell EMC Solution Enabler 8.1. Current version is 9.2. Could you update the Rocket Device Adapter Packs in order to support the new versions of Solution Enabler ? Thanks.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Offloaded backup stop working after v4.1.4 upgrade

FlashCopy Manager for Custom Applications, after upgrade to v4.1.4, offloaded backup stop working..Need a new function that offloaded backups can be executed as root user so that files that are not accessible by the application owner can be offloa...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Request for support for Tivoli Flash Copy Manager 2.2 support for Veritas File System on AIX 6.1

We would like to request that Tivoli Flash Copy Manager to be supported with Veritas File System with the following components: 1. ERMS and BW SAP systems running on Oracle 10g R2 DB2. Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 and Veritas File System. 3. Server ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Thighten the relationship to Hardware based VSS providers

Whether FCM 3.1 is sending a VSS based snapshot to same disk or is making storagesystem based snapshots/clones is transparrent in FCM 3.1.Desicion for snapshot or clone cannot be done thru FCM 3.1 UI.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli Flash Copy - FCM VM - Backup fails / Snapshot failure

After using FlashCopy Manager for VMWare we realized that the entire backup operation is cancelled (rolled back) as soon as a certain VM could not be quiesced.We request that the backup operation should continue so that the rest of the VMs are bac...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

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