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Increase the command history buffer in dsmadmc to WAY more than 20.

The command history feature (up arrow) in the dsmadmc and dsmc command line interfaces has been limited to 20 previous commands for over 25 years. Assuming that this was some sort of memory limitation in the distant past, can you please increase t...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Provide detailed sizing guidelines for DB sizing with 7.1.3 deduplication

Current product documentation includes TSM DB sizing guidelines without deduplication, and there are instructions for old TSM dedupe DB impact at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21596944. The impact of deduplication is much lower ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

TSM OC should have a job control.

TSM Operation Center needs a panel to control the backup-restores. I am going to put some examples. If a customer is using Control-M or TWS, TSM doesn't know if the backup is good or fail. Like TSM is a Backup/Restore tool. It is also necesary thi...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Naming for the VMWare snapshot generated by TSM4VE

The naming of the VMware snapshots generated by TSM4VE during backup activity should be customizable. You can see if a snapshot is generated by TSM4VE because the properties of a TSM4VE generated snapshot includes a "TSMBackup" information,but a t...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Backup HyperV VMs more backup Types & Options

more backup types & options for hyperV VMs not only full backup and restore
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Support for the TSM 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12 ?

Support for the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12. Today, IBM supports only Ubuntu 10 and 11.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417165#6.3%20DI...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

ITM for TSM agent (SK) is un-usable in existing environment

ITM for Tivoli Storage Manager is only offered as an all-inclusive ITM installation (utilizing the much loathed DE no less..) This packaging is different than any other ITM agent offered by IBM that we have seen. It makes remotely deploying, maint...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TDP for Domino on Linux x86 & x86_64

Tivoli Data Protection for Domino does not support Linux on x86 & x86_64 systems after 5.5.3 while Domino supports this platform. When will this platform become supported again for current versions of Tivoli Data Protection?
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 4 Delivered

XLS output from scheduled VM Backup history report

Scheduled report which is sending by e-mail is not possible to generate it in XLS format. It is normally possible to chose between xls and pdf format by instant (not scheduled) report run only.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Multiple VMware webclient plug-in registrations in one VCenter server

Customer would like to have the possibility of multiple TSM4VE plug-in registrations on the same vCenter server. In case customers are using more than one Spectrum Protect TDP configurations within one VSphere environment, multiple DP GUI connecti...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

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