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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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unattended/silent installation required for TDP Oracle on AIX, other platforms have that functionality

An unattended (silent) installation facility is requied for Tivoli Storage Manger for Databases, Data Protection for Oracle, on AIX - as it is in place for the other platforms such as HPUX, Linux and Windows!
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Use different option and configuration files in FlashCopyManager for TDP SQL

Since the TDP for SQL GUI has been deprecated and replaced by FlashCopyManager as a GUI, we are unable to select which "dsm.opt" and "tdpsql.cfg" files will be used to perform backups and restores i.e. we are forced to use the default ones: * "c:\...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Incremental forever for Databases

Would like to see if it is possible to have incremental forever capability with the SQL and Oracle TDP. Hard to pitch the idea of TSM being an incremenal forever solution , exept for Database scenarios.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

offload weekly / monthly backups need to have include logs option

The default behaviour for an "offloaded DB2 backup" is to exclude the logs. There isn't an option to override this behaviour.We require an option to override the default behaviour so that we have an option to include logs.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

TSM for Databases clients not restorable from backupsets

Currently if you use TSM for Databases to backup your databases you can't use backupsets because the restoring of the data doesn't work. Currently if you want to have a database backup included in a backupset you need to create a separate dump fro...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Capability to distinguish between active and inactive Oracle backups

Some way to distinguish between active (most recent) oracle backups and the old versions. Two common reasons to protect Oracle databases are for DR purpose and record keeping due to legal obligations. But these two methodologys have completely dif...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Please add some kind of reporting

Please expose the reporting in Data Protection for SQL Server. In the new management console there is a report named "Data Protection Activity Report". We would like to be able to gather the success/failures externally.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

Deletion of TDPSQL Legacy Backups

The ability to delete a specific Legacy backup at least through the CLI
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

implement SQL backup COPY_ONLY

The SQL has the option to create a full DB Backup that does not interfere with the normal backup full, diff, log chain with the COPY-ONLY parameter.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release