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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Tivoli
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
Thank you for submitting this request. This is being targeted for a release in the next year or two. This is not a statement of commitment as intent and plans are subject to change. We will provide an update to the request should plans change or the enhancement is delivered. We sincerely appreciate your commitment to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and support in moving the product forward.
I understand that getting a good backup is the most important, but when
you offer a feature that is "best efforts" with no way to verify, why
have the feature?
eg
TSM will use "best efforts" to do a backup of a client.
As you know there are times when for one reason or another a backup
cannot be done.
Imagine now, TSM does not give you a way to report if the backup
succeeded, if it generated an error or when it started the backup?
That is what happens when it fails to collocate, there is no report, it
does not generate an error, warning or information message nor does post
a message to any log that it has had to resort to non collocation.
Does that make sense?