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Spectrum Protect for ERP

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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...
about 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...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Data Protection for SAP HANA setup script

Hello, after installing data protection client for HANA v7.1.3.1 it is required to run following configuration script: /opt/tivoli/tsm/tdp_hana/setup.sh Script generates initSID.utl file, creates the "TSM" HDBKEYSTORE key and verifies the password...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

Dedup stats with brbackup/rman_util backups

When we use client deduplication, it is nice to know the amount of data remaining after the deduplication.We have this kind of information with the baclient, TDP for VE, TDP for Oracle, but nothing with the TDP for ERP / rman_util
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Need TSM client timeout

There should be some way to automatically recover from issue when TSM client could not communicate to TSM server in the middle of the session.Imagine the situation:1. Archive session was started from the client2. Client successfully connected to t...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TDP for implementing SAP Hana on Suse 12 operating system

We actually are in a critical situation, all new Lenovo Hardware can not be installed with SUSE 11, we urgently need TDP for Sap Hana with support for SUSE 12, so that we can continue with the implementation and give service to the customers accor...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM ERP for SAP HANA certification for Dynamic Tiering environments archive

SAP hana SPS 10 did release a feture dynamic Tiering that allow some data to be kept on disk (see presentation: https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62435)Those data could be mutiple TB to releive the cost of having it in memory.We would like to have TSM ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TDP For erp sap_hana

Despite what is written in the documentation Versioning is not available for SAP_HANA backups. I would like to have the MAX_VERSION available so as to age backups. At the same time I want SAP HANA to be aware about the deletion of those old backups.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Allow HANA DB backups to be monitored & managed via Admin Assistant

The Admin Assistant within TSM for ERP currently does not support HANA backups
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

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