Hi Richard,

yes you can suspend deletion.  A bullet on the page says so.
But you can't  add this feature on to an existing server, so it won't
help the original poster.  See the redbook at
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=rdb2sg24709800
for an architectural overview.  It only takes data from the api and
needs a content manager type product to front-end it.

- bill




At 01:49 PM 12/1/2004, you wrote:
>On Dec 1, 2004, at 12:18 PM, William F. Colwell wrote:
>
>>ITSM has announced a special version of tsm to meet regulatory needs.
>>I forget the exact details, I think there is an extra charge.
>>
>>A query license output includes these 2 lines -
>>
>>  Is Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention in use ?: No
>>Is Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention licensed ?: No
>
>Hi, Bill - The web page is
> http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr-data-reten/
>My reading of it is that it principally just guarantees that the data
>won't be deleteable from TSM storage until it expires per retention
>policies - but I don't perceive any capability for freezing data, per
>se.
>At expiration time, the data goes away, as usual.
>
>  Richard Sims

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Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.