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Spectrum Protect for ERP

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For legal reasons we may be asked to change the retention period to unlimited for an EXISTING backup (and not do a new backup

See attached document
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Support for SAP API for SAP HANA next release (SPS5)

Currently TDP for SAP HANA 6.4 supports HANA release SPS4. The next release of SAP HANA will ship an API which must be used in order to take backups. In order to be ready to support future HANA releases, TDP for SAP HANA needs to support this SAP ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Planned for future release

TSM for ERP: Support for MSSQL database

Currently TSM for ERP (SAP) is available for Windows platforms but only if SAP is used in conjunction with Oracle or DB2 databases.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

RFE for 'BACKUP CHECK LOGICAL' with TSM for ERP - FCM backup using rman for a SAP database.

We are trying to use IBM TFCM to take SAP backups and also make use of the rman 'BACKUP CHECK LOGICAL' option as we do with a native oracle TFCM backup. We did ask if it was possible and if so should the init<SID>.utl file be the place where...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Configure File Open Mode O_CIOR

Need a Possibility to configure File Open Mode = O_CIOR.See PMR's 63546,070,724 and 63285,070,724 for further Details
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Support for MultiBos in TDP for ERP

Current install procedures do now allow for the copying of binaries for support of MultiBos which is used extensively in Neslte as a critical part of the build and staging process of support for the AIX infrastructure
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration