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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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Client Code Deployment for TDP modules

Currently, TSM has the ability to deploy the standard Backup & Archive clients from a central location. It would be very useful to have the same ability for TDP for Databases and TDP for Mail as well.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 5 Not under consideration

TSM TDP for Database restore support for MSSQL with Change Data Capture (CDC)

Support for restoring a MSSQL database with Change Data Capture (CDC) enabled to a different server, and keep CDC enabled after restore.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM TDP for SQL; Create a possibility to bypass the sysadmin role membership check.

Current situation: Tivoli Storage Manager checks for SQL sysadmin role membership of service account right at startup instead of checking for specific permissions needed for backup / restore. When SQL sysadmin role membership is not in place, the ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Certification and Support for TSM client and TDPO to run on Oracle Virtual Machine LDOMs for SPARC

We are migrating from Oracle Sun SPARC physical platform to Oracle SPARC virtual machine OVM (LDOMs). As per IBM support, TSM client and TSM TDPO are NOT supported to run on this platform. A local test installation was conducted though, and everyt...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL parallel backup of Logs to two different managementclasses

With TDp for SQL only allows to backup logfiles only to one location. On other databases such as Oracle, DB2 and even MaxDB it is possible to backup logfiles to two different locations.It would be helpfull if in the configuration it is possible to...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

Incremental forever for Databases

Would like to see if it is possible to have incremental forever capability with the SQL and Oracle TDP. Hard to pitch the idea of TSM being an incremenal forever solution , exept for Database scenarios.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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

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