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    Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

    Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Planned for future release

    Data Management Service: Clusters should show a warning on Summary dashboard when in a disconnected state

    DMS works much like Data Protect local console. It is very simple to use, but the health status can be misleading. Clusters should show a warning on Summary dashboard when in a disconnected state
    almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

    DMS/Data Protect NAS backup: Would be helpful if Scale GUI+CES+NFS requirement was displayed in Web GUI

    Using Storage Scale for NAS backup requires Scale GUI+CES+NFS. While this is noted in the documentation, it would be helpful if this was indicated in the GUI.
    almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

    Defender Data Protect backup all Kubernetes OpenShift namespaces

    Openshift namespaces which starts with a preffix "openshift-" are system namespaces and usually they do not contain any persistent volume claim or any significant YAML object which can't be reproduce on another cluster. On the other hand, there is...
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

    TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI multiple DB instances

    The FCM GUI of newest TDP Version works only with default dsm.opt.The older GUI could be started with CLI Option: tdpsqlc /tsmoptfile="<path>\dsm.opt".This function is not available for flashcopymanager.exe!Please refer to my Supportcase 134...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

    Oracle 18c support SP 4 DB's

    I have a client who is installing Oracle 18c now and have a need for backups They have used Spectrum Protect in the past and want to continue to do so
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

    Backup Solution for Oracle 19c

    We have to be able to backup Oracle 19c
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

    FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

    There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

    tdposync with script

    Since migration to version 6.3.0, we are no more able to use tdposync in script because password is request on concole or terminal. Many Oracle DB is hosted in our Data Centers and cleanup TSM with RMAN Catalog can be a heavy load if this opportin...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

    Provide capability to use custom option and configuration files with the MMC GUI in the SQL TDP v6.4

    Re-instatement of the /tsmoptfile and /configfile parameters with the MMC GUI for SQL TDP v6.4 so that the option file and config file can have non-standard names and can be located in non-default folders.These parameters are currently available w...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

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