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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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TDP for Database Oracle and BA Client Compatibility for Oracle Linux

Actualy the Oracle Linux operation system are not listed as compatible for TDP for Database Oracle and BA Client.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

TDP for SQL security authorization

Enable TDP for Microsoft SQL to be Active Directory aware so that SQL database access plus TDP flashcopy console access can be restricted and secured. Currently a local SQL account has to be used within the TDP agent for backups and restores. This...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

TDP for SQL tail-log backup NORECOVERY option

In MS SQL it is possible to do a log backup with option NORECOVERY. It will take the database into restoring state to prevent any changes being made to the database after the tail of the log has been backed up. This document describes some scenari...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

Use TDPOSYNC with control file

The TDPOSYNC utility is used in conjunction with an RMAN catalog to clear out oracle backup objects that have been orphaned in the TSM Server. Oracle RMAN can also use a control file to store this information, instead of the RMAN catalog. However,...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

TDPO Client Sun Solaris 11 x86

We need a new Version of TDPO Client for Sun Solaris 11 x86.Our TSM client instances are on version 6.3.3.100
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Delivered

Backup And Restore Oracle Database Using GUI

kindly it is requested for development to backup and restore oracle database using GUI which gives you more easier jobs than command lines.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Delivered

TDP rebinding of all inactive backups to new management class

When management class changes for TDP backups TDP will rebind all previous backups to the new management class. This is opposite to TSM file level behaviour. Backups that have long retention like 7 years would all be lost by simple management clas...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

SQL TDP Parallelization

Today, a large database is backed up as one object. This large database backup requires a great deal of time. If the TDP could break the large databae up into smaller increments, parallelization could be introduced into the backup and thus, reduce...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

TDP for SQL BACKUP WITH CHECKSUM option

Customer Societe Generale is one of our top 5 TSM banking customer in France. Recently, they encountered a data corruption situation on ORACLE database backups due to hardware issues. They want to implement a process to check regularly (by sample)...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

TDP for SQL RESTORE VERIFYONLY option

Customer Societe Generale is one of our top 5 TSM banking customer in France. Recently, they encountered a data corruption situation on ORACLE database backups due to hardware issues. They want to implement a process to check regularly (by sample)...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered