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Spectrum Protect for ERP

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Different retention policies (Time) for SAP HANA Backup

customers wants to use of existing SAP HANA backup data to satisfy business needs for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly data collections without using different nodes for the identical machine
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Enhancemnt request for setup.sh in TDP HANA 8.1.1.0 for non-local sidadm users support

We had opened case (TS001622349) as we were getting user related error while running setup.sh for Data Protection for SAP HANA 8.1.1.0 because we are not using local user. hanatest02:/opt/tivoli/tsm/tdp_hana # ./setup.shIBM Spectrum Protect for En...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Future consideration

Use TDP4HANA without ssh connections

Please change installation routine for TDP4HANA so setup.sh script does not require ssh connection to be able to work. Ideally you want to have the option if you want to use ssh to run remote commands (on remote or local hosts) or is you want to r...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning 8.1.0 for HANA running on SUSE 12 LE

We need to have the IBM Spectrum Protect ERP 8.1 for HANA running on SUSE 12 LE on POWER.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

backom with dedup_device

Hi, there is no dedup_device Support with backom (DP for ERP). Thus, there is currently no capability to add the dedup option to the DB2 command when using backom. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21627065 I think we Need this.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

TDP ERP for SAP Support for DB2 v10.x Red Hat Linux

Hello RFE-Team,your newest Version of TDP ERP for SAP DB2 is 6.3.xThis TDP Version has only Toleration Support for AIX for DB2 v10.xWe have Custumers with SAP ERP and DB2 V10.x with Operating Systemm Red Hat Linux 6.xThere have already been severa...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Planned for future release

Support pureScale DB2 systems with TSM for ERP

TSM for ERP needs to support DB2 pureScale systems with the same features currently supported for non-pureScale systems.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Not under consideration

TSM to issue a "retryable" error code to RMAN to avoid loosing the session

Enhandmente for the API between RMAN and TSM: problem: if TSM issues an error Oracle closes the session and does not try again; suggestion: TSM to return a retryable error code to Oracle. Oracle then can retry the backup on another channel. Limita...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for ERP (DB2): support for non-default storage groups

TDP for ERP on DB2 databases is lacking support for non-default storage groups. If databases are backed up that contain non-default storage groups other than IBMSTOGROUP, the information is not included in the .TDI definition, and is lost at resto...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Add TSM for ERP session identifier for the improved collocation

Currently, when TSM for ERP is used to backup DB2 database, it assignes the same filespace name to all backups stored on the TSM Server. This results in various undesired consequences for the backups of large databases which are normally performed...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Not under consideration