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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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

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

TDP Backup through a firewall with a one way connection (server -> client)

TDP Backup through a firewall with a one way connection (server -> client) For an incrementall is this possible, but unfortunately not for a tdp-backuphttp://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.client.do...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client session handling

It appears that TSM session handling for DB2 database (and for other DBs as well) is based on data received from TSM client. If the no data is received from client node TSM assumes client is not responding and terminates the client database backup...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM for DB - SQL Scalability Enhancement for Large SQL Cluster Environments at Providence Health

Please Note Jim Smith may have further detail seeing how he was on the call with the customer when the customer expressed their concerns. 1) When you have a Cluster with More than a single SQL server running on it, you need either multiple TSM sch...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

FB4WKSCDP auto register using TSM as remote storage

When running the FB4WKS CDP and using a TSM server as the remote storage device, you have to manaully register the host name before the backups will run.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

TSM Client side deuplication effectiveness compromised by local cache file locking

Currently, attempts to perform multiple database backups concurrently from a dataserver instance registered to a single TSM node name with client side deupe enabled will fail with ANS7903W. We have been advised that there are two ways to work arou...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration