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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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Not able to resolve the error code ANS2042W when symbolic link is created on different filesystem

Not able to resolve the error code ANS2042W when symbolic link is created on different filesystem
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 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.
about 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.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 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
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 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.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TDPO RMAN Delete with honoring RETONLY parameter

Currrently if Oracle RMAN deletes a backup object, this object gets deleted immediately in TSM without honoring the RETONLY parameter in the backup copygroup. If a crazy Oracle admin deletes the original Oracle database and also run a RMAN delete ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

unable to take backups of a database using tdp 6.4.1 for SQL 2012 with always on node

Tsm server 6.4 qnd we are trying to take one backup in two different management classes using tdp sql 2012 with always on feature enabled. For tye second backup which should go to the new mgmt, it fails with the merge test. Because backup happens ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Implement -fromdate -todate in the TSM API

We have today a product which can restore only block changes from TSM, but we have to retrieve a list of all objects from TSM because of that there is no way to get a list of objects that has been backed up since a given date/time.Similar function...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Repport merge errors from clients in TSM server activity log

We would like to see the merge errors from a SQL TDP back in the TSM server activity log. The client error is: ANS0328E RC45 MERGE TEST FAILURE WITH CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT CLASS
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration