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snapdiff to update last backup fields in filespace data

Could you please update the TSM snapdiff client to update the lastbackup information of filespaces when a "query filespace f=d" is issued. This would be the obvious behaviour and would be inline with the documented meaning of the columns This limi...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Reduce TSM4VE foot print in backup infrastructure with StorageAgent for vCenter

As of now TSM for VE component needs a separate system within the VM infrastructure or outside of it to setup a Data Mover node to help facilitate the Virtual Machine data movement. This enhancement request is to change the TSM for VE code and set...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Avoid Windows server reboot during Auto client deployment due to C++ package installation

TSM Client Auto deployment code for version 7.1.3.2 is installing the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.21022" which is not the required pre-requisite for the 7.1.3.2 version. Also during the installation of Microsoft Visual C++...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Subscribe to profiles from more than one configuration manager

As of now it's only possible to define subscriptions from one configuration manager. It would be good to be able to do it from multiple configuration managers at the same time, which would make at least our environment more standardized for some s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM BAC support for Veritas SFHA v6.2 and Infoscale (former VxFS) v7.x

TSM B/A Client on AIX supports Veritas Storage Foundation and SF High-Availability VxFS up to version 6.0. Storage Foundation and SFHA v6.2 for AIX is not listed as supported. With version 7.0 Veritas has rebranded the product as Infoscale Storage...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Output of "Q PRocess"

Generally the command "Q PRocess" show the tape mounted in a drive. This is not true for a node replication process.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Prioritization for Protect integrated with CAP and Signature V4 support for Intel Community private Amazon cloud support

Requesting support for Intelligence Community Gov Cloud - Amazon C2S: CAP authentication support, and Signature V4 support.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TDPO/RMAN and TSM archive

Hello,We use RMAN/TDPO to backup Oracle DB.I would like to be able to do a TSM archive of those data, but all data sent to TSM are only backup type.As I understood (please confirm) this issue should be addressed to TDPO side (not RMAN side).Thanks...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

backup / restore @ CTIE of the BTRFS on SLES12

Support of Spectrum Protect to create image backups of BTRFS subvolumes, or at least of the BTRFS file system without unmounting any subvolumes. The capability should be enabled even if the customer only has BTRFS as volume manager ( ie without LV...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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