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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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tdpoconf limitations when configuration TDP for oracle

TDPOCONF is limited as we cannot parse additional parameters when we run the password configuration. Ideally, it would be best if we could run tdpoconf password and automatically parse the password automatically within a script. This is a major ro...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

filespace capacity and utilization should reflect allocated and used space in the databases protected

Today it is not possible to check capacity and utilization of the databases protected, as the filespaces is not updated with the figures tsm: TSMGOT15>q fil ORAPREEDB01_ORACLE f=D Node Name: ORAPREEDB01_ORACLE Filespace Name: /orapreedb01_gpcal...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Post all TSM Linux application and dbms backup agents into RPM Linux repository

Place all linux-based TSM clients into a standard linux repository, so updates can be performed using standard linux system tools. This repository would need to be publicly accessible, although they can be secured with a login.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

report if backup was deduped by client

If the client de-duplication has been enabled for a given node, but the estimated size is bigger than:tsm: TSMWAR01>q opt *deduptx* Server Option Option Setting------------------------- -----------------------------------ClientDedupTxnLimit 1,0...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Support for SQL Server Express Edition

Please support SQL Server Express Edition. Technically, this should be no different than Standard Edition.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

SQL Log backup to report which DBs are excluded

When doing a MS-SQL log backup, DBs in simple mode are excluded from processing (which is good). However, it would be nice to get a list of which DBs are excluded in the report not only the # of excludes in order to be able to alert the DBAs of this.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Clength limit of each option is 1790 characters

Customer needs to use the command line for some restores and faces the error bellow: Failed - Error: RC: 1924 ACO6205E The tdpsqlc command that was entered exceeds the maximum length limit.The length limit of each option is 1790 characters.exists
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

TSM fails taking backups of Informix.

When customer take a backup from TSM for Informix , the backup fails, they checked the problem and informix get locks.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Support TDP for Oracle on Red Hat 7

Setting up a new Oracle database server on Linux we cannot use Red Hat 7 as the OS because it is not supported with TDP for Oracle.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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