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TSM Missed backup status used to have a completion time of when the event missed now it's blank since 6.2.3. Please add back

Product: Tivioli Storage Manager Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 3.0 This is specific to a Missed backupWhen a backup has Missed the timestamp is recorded in the actlog but when executing the QUERY EVENT it is not recorded. We would like the co...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Is a defect

Pre-Requisites Check Script

In order to consider and check all points on the pre-requisite checklist for FCM on Unix, Linux a checking utility would ease the work a lot. Currently, the checklist is very complex and not all of the points are directly clear. Some points refer ...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality Planned for future release

FCM support for PowerLinux.

Currently Flashcopy Manager is only support on Linux x86_64 platforms.We would like to see support for PowerLinux setups.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager Not under consideration

fastback fbdrcopy force to not overwrite existing files in TSM

a force=no option so that if the fbdrcopy operation is interrupted you don't have to overwrite the files that have already been exported to the TSM server.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack Not under consideration

Support for Dell Equallogic FS7500

We recently added a Dell Equallogic FS 7500 NAS for the storage of our faculty/staff, administrative and student file shares. We would like to see the FS 7500 added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using TSM and ND...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Not under consideration

TSM should support NDMP backup with VTL libtype

TSM Server should support NDMP backups with libtype VTL. It's documented that generally backups are faster when using a VTL and libtype is set to VTL instead of SCSI. Due to the limitation of TSM libtype VTL cannot be used as NDMP backups are not ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Planned for future release

Changing Retention between Source and Target Replicated Nodes

We need the ability to have different retentions between on the source and target for each replicated node. That way we can store active data for the short term on the source and change the replicated node to long term retention.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Admin tasks running remote

For admin tasks, the backup data is going from storage to the TSM server and then from TSM server to storage. Use an other server to move the backup data (except the metadata) from storage to storage, that is closer to the storage.(like lan free b...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Deletion of TDPSQL Legacy Backups

The ability to delete a specific Legacy backup at least through the CLI
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases Not under consideration

Backup from IBM Netezza over the SAN with TSM BA Client and TSM for SAN

Could you please confirm if it is or it is not supported and if the only way to execute IBM Netezza backups to TSM is over the LAN ?
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) Not under consideration

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