IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Product enhancements in V5.2

• O/S platform support improvements
  • Oracle® on Linux x86 and 64-bit Windows®
  • VxFS file system on AIX®
  • Data Protection for mySAP.com support for DB2 V8 and 64-bit AIX 5 SAP.com
  • Tivoli Storage Manager Server for Linux on zSeries
  • Tivoli Storage Manager Server on z/OS supports LAN-Free clients

Storage/Device support improvements

• NDMP support for EMC® Celerra
• Dynamic determination of Tivoli Storage Manager definitions for devices on SANs
• Labeling of tapes without bar codes has been improved
• Option to have the server automatically label tape volumes in libraries of type SCSI
• Support for TapeAlert

Management improvements

• New management features
  • Operational reporting
  • Generic NDMP support
  • Regulations compliance:
    • Data retention protection
    • Event-based retention policy
    • Deletion hold
  • Cluster support for Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) for Windows
  • MAC OS X command line interface/boot time scheduler
  • MAC OS X multi-user support enables end user to backup/restore their own files
  • MAC OS X administrator command line interface
  • HSM Linux GPFS streaming support
  • HSM partial File Recall for AIX GPFS
• Improved management features
  • Enhanced multi-session backup
  • Support Persistent world wide names for SAN attached drives
  • Choice on backing up symbolic links
  • Language packs for Russian, Hungarian, Polish and Czech for clients
  • HSM LAN-free for AIX GPFS

• Reduces impact of backups by utilizing snapshot backups
• Improves LAN-free support with features like tape mount retention, configuration, and performance enhancements
• Improves HSM usability and accessibility for non-root users
• Reduces data access times for HSM recall
• Extends Long-term archive period to 82 years
• Adds language support for MAC OS X via Unicode
• Backups can now be scheduled through a firewall without any backup/archive client-initiated sessions
• Includes Tivoli Storage Manager client end user GUI updates
• Integrates with Tivoli Data Warehouse

24x365 Business-critical application protection improvements (previously known as Data Protection Modules)

• Oracle on Linux x86 and 64-bit Windows
• Data Protection for mySAP.com support for DB2 V8 and 64-bit AIX 5
• Globalization and translations for Data Protection for Domino® on OS/400
• FlashCopy restore for mySAP.com DB2 databases Obtained Microsoft® Certification for Data Protection for SQL and Exchange
• Adds Data Protection for mySAP.com
• Administration Assistant GUI updates and tracing enhancements
• Simplifies installation of Data Protection for mySAP.com
• AIX 5.1 and 5.2 support for Oracle and R/3 databases
• Oracle 9i (9.1 and 9.2) in 32 and 64 bit mode for Oracle and R/3 databases
• Support in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Application Servers for WebSphere® Application Servers version 5
• Applet GUI for WebSphere Application Servers
• Sun™ Solaris™ 64 bit mode support for Informix databases
• Linux on xSeries support for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases
• Tivoli Storage Manager for Lotus Domino support version 6 of Lotus Domino
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases:
  • SQL 2000 (64 bit) in Windows 2003 support
  • SQL - Electronic Licensing implementation
  • Oracle zSeries Linux Support
  • Informix Linux x86 support
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail:
  • Exchange 2003 Support
  • Exchange - Electronic Licensing implementation

O/S platform support improvements

• Tivoli Storage Manager Servers:
  • Disaster Recovery Manager for Linux, Intel, zSeries and pSeries
• Tivoli Storage Manager Clients:
  • Linux B/A client for IA-64
  • Novell Netware 6.5
• Hierarchal Space Manager:
  • Linux GPFS
  • HP 11.11 VxFS 3.5

Storage/Device support improvements

• Super AIT
• Seagate DAT 72
• DVD support - Plasmon D-Series DVD libraries
• WORM (Sony) Tapes
• iSCSI support for Windows
• 3592 Jaguar support
• EMC Centera support
• SAN File System basic back up
• Windows 2003 Storage Server

Management improvements

• Improved management features
  • Enhanced multi-session backup
  • Support Persistent world wide names for SAN attached drives
  • Choice on backing up symbolic links
  • Language packs for Russian, Hungarian, Polish and Czech for clients
  • HSM LAN-free for AIX GPFS

24x365 Business-critical application protection improvements (previously known as Data Protection Modules)

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning (Tivoli Data Protection for mySAP):
  • Support for Flashcopy Restore for Oracle (DB2 Flashcopy Restore supported in Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning 5.1.5)
  • Windows 2003 (32 + 64 bit) support
  • SAP on Oracle: Suse xLinux support
  • SAP on DB2: Suse and Red Hat xLinux support
  • Enhanced Administration Assistant: Status Monitor functions and Tivoli user interface compliance
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail:
  • Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Domino: zLinux support
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery:
  • Firewall support
  • User selectable directory for temporary work files
  • Restore file system permissions without restoring data
  • Add pull backup support to CD / DVD backups

• Storage/Device support improvements
  • 3584 R4 support LTO and 3592 drives in the 3584
  • RMSS 3581 with TSM
  • RMSS WORM support for 3592
• New management features
  • Integration with Data Warehouse
    • Client Occupancy in ITSM Server
• Improved management features
  • 24x365 Business-critical application protection improvements (previously known as Data Protection Modules)
    • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases
      • TDP for Informix on Linux zSeries 64-bit (SLES 8)
      • TDP for Informix on Red Hat 3.0 on xSeries
      • TDP for Oracle on Red Hat 3.0 on xSeries
      • TDP for Oracle support for Oracle RAC on AIX with GPFS
    • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail
      • TDP for Domino on Red Hat 3.0 on xSeries
    • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Application Servers
      • TDP for WAS on Linux/390 31-bit (SLES 7 & 8)

Page last updated on November 20, 2007.