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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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Improve Function of TDP for Oracle to be a more effective MediaManager

When Oracle RMAN begins a restore it apparently asks the MediaManager for all the volumes that will be needed to restore all the 'pieces' of the backup. On a long-running restore, in the time between the restore starting and it getting to any spec...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TDP for Oracle to enable an option to bypass the catalog and access inactive backups

Enhance the product (all TDP's for Databases but in this case specifically for Oracle) to enable recovery of inactive backups (not in the catalog).
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Fix BKI6243E error for HANA with SSL enforced

TSM to work with sslEnforce = True parameter on SAP HANA database
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Logfiles that would include all execution outputs

Currently the TDPSQLC.exe has a LOGFILE option that only outputs the summary of its execution. Today, if I wish to see the summary and the execution of each database backup I need to provide both the LOGFILE and a redirected log path such that I c...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

Add tdp client for MSSQL on linux

TDP for MSSQL needed on Linux systems
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Report FE capacity for DB2 databases in OC

We want to see the "Capacity Used" values for DB2 databases in the "License Estimation" of the Spectrum Protect Operation Center.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL 2012 in Windows 2016

We have 2 Windows Server 2016 with both SQL 2012 and SQL 2016 instances.We need a TDP client version compatible with these three components, so we can backup all Databases in both SQL versions.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Provide cross platform recovery of .nsd files for Lotus Dominos using Tivoli Data Protect for Dominos

Customer is migrating Dominos from AIX to xLinux, and interested in being able to recover .nsd files from AIX backups into xLinux platform.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

SP for DATABASES SQL 8.1.4 should support SQL 2016 EXPRESS

SP for DATABASES SQL 8.1.4 should support SQL 2016 EXPRESS.Currently it is not listed into the supported DB
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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