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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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improvement for 'Generate backupset' to support SQL and Exchange filespaces

Backupsets are a great way to handle data to be stored for long term retention. Lots of TSM customers use backupsets for that purpose. Alas it's not possible to generate a backupset for filespaces containing data from TDP backups such as SQL and E...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file.

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file. Currently what happens is whenver TDP SQL backup encounter an offline SQL DB backup get failed for DB and return code for the bac...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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!
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

For case TS002612329, we need to increase the character limit of future versions of the TSM/TDPSQL from 1790 to 4000.

491/5000We have a problem with a restore of BD in PMR TS002612329 and we need to increase the character limit of future versions of the "IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server" product from 1790 to 4000. The a...
over 5 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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

If TSM hasn't got Full backup of SQL DB, raise Diff/log backup to Full

Now when a 'tdpsqlc backup diff' backup runs for a SQL db instance only DB's with existing Full backup are backed up. DB's that have just been created will make the schedule that starts the backup fail with an error in the tdpsqlc log like this: "...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Snapshot backup attempted & error shows job failed,when only database snapshot failed,everything else backed up successfully.

Currently, a snapshot backup is attempted and it generates an error that the job has failed when really it hasn't, only the database snapshot has failed, all the other databases get backed up successfully. This results in additional overhead for a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL Integration with CDC for SQL

How to make it possible to create a custom script in IBM Spectrum Protect SQLServer to run every 8 hours and perform backup and erase logs only from the last 4 hours, keeping 4 hours of logs on the SQLServer disk. We have a use case where two IBM ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

remove DP SQL MMC configuration deficiency when handling multiple instances

The DP SQL MMC is only able to handle very simple setups with single SQL instances or multiply SQL instances backing up to a single client node. This is not realistic. When using multiply instances, one usually has to use different client nodes fo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 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...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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