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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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Increase Performance of RMAN/TDPO backups and minimize crosscheck initiated sessions

after upgrade of BA Client and TDPO to 7.1.8 /8.1.2 Client level we have a massive performance problem which was caused by thousends of sessions initiated by RMAN Cross Check.As long we are using Dedup in target pool the change of filesperset opti...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Support for local deduplication cache when using API clients

Logged on behave of the customer. They would like formal support for a local deduplication cache when using the TDP (API) products, such as TSM for Databases (eg SQL).
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Fix o disable "Replace" option in VSS DB Restore

Tivoli Data Protection for Databases(SQL) has the option to backup and restore either using Legacy or VSS options. Whenever you select Restore you have the hability to select various "Restore Options", among this options is "Replace""Replace" tell...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Multiple COPY backup types for TDP for SQL

Currently there is one database backup type for daily backups (full/differential) and one for copy backups. DBAs often require backups to be held for other retentions, and this currently can only be done by creating multiple TSM nodes. Additionall...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Request to add native Sybase Support to Spectrum Protect (DP for Sybase)

Sybase produces Enterprise class RDBMS solutions for a variety of uses cases and industries. While perhaps not as pervasive as MS SQL or Oracle, the product does appear fairly frequently in customer environments. While there are a variety of metho...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to Data Protection For Exchange to allow restore of soft deleted mailboxes

System: Data Protection For Exchange Actor: User needing to recover soft deleted mailboxes.Data protection is a commonly used product that provides backup/restore for Exchange environments. Description: We use Data Protection For Exchange to prote...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

TDPOCONF - provide option for password command

Provide an option for tdpoconf password command to specify current and new password like:tdpoconf password -tdpo_optfile=<tdpo_optfile.opt> -currentpw=<currentpw> -newpw=<newpw>
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

restore a merge replicated publisher database

Hello, i have restored with legacy backup a merge replicated publisher database.Than i saw, that the replication - Tables like "MSmerge_conflicts_info" wasn't restored.The Transact-SQL command "restore" (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/libra...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

TDP for Oracle Parallel Backup to Multiple TSM Servers

Backup/restore performance in TSM TDP environments can be increased through the addition of TSM servers that rman uses for backups and restores. A solution that does not require manual scripting would make this functionality easier to use and offl...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TDPO/RMAN and TSM archive

Hello,We use RMAN/TDPO to backup Oracle DB.I would like to be able to do a TSM archive of those data, but all data sent to TSM are only backup type.As I understood (please confirm) this issue should be addressed to TDPO side (not RMAN side).Thanks...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

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