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DOMAIN option to use with selective backup and archive

The TSM client option "DOMAIN" should be applicable for Selective backup and Archives.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Addition of DURATION=mmm parameter to BACKUP STGPOOL command

On several occations my TSM customers have been short on scratch tapes for a long period, building up a huge backlog of data that should be backed up up to a copy storage pool. When the scratch shortage is over, the daily scripts never finishes, s...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

When using dedup, occupancy tables show wrong information

When using dedup, occupancy tables shows less space being used, than what is actually being used. This is described here:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21614080"Occupancy size discrepancy with deduplication"This poses a big probl...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

B/A Client installation impact TIMTAM application

When the B/A client is installed it removes current gsk installation (in our case GSK7) and install its GSK8 package.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

SAN Volume Controller SVC - Individual Accountability (SYS4984)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

VMware backup reporting in TCR

Tivoli Common Reporting.Client is unable to have a view of each VM which is being backed up.Clients require a full detailed report of VM's being backed up within the TCR tools.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM and T10kD drive compatibility

Hi, is there a planned release date for tape drive T10kD compatibility with TSM ?Is there an early adopter program fo test of this drive with tsm? Thank you Daniele
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM v6.x Files & Directories omit the the world writable bit for security reasons (SYS4956)

Files:/opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/_installPgms/Db2idrop.sh/opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/license/nodelock.db2 Directories:/tsminst1/ARC_log/archmeth1/tsminst1/ARC_logf/failarchWe would like confirmation from Tivoli TSM development that the permissions on these files...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Fastback support for Exchange 2013

Add support for Microsoft Exchange 2013.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 2 Delivered

TSM Server restores from physical library instead of Virtual one

TSM Server restores from physical library instead of Virtual one. This is due to TSM looks in the pools which needs less mount points to restore the files. This is a big problem for restoring files because our customer has set up lanfrees against ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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