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Gwinnett County Public Schoolls

Can a mechanism be built which will allow a more consolidated view of global values (such as TP Grain size) instead of having to go directlyto each volume?The problem they are attempting to address is having to drill into each area for new provisi...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

SAP HANA - Day to Day Operational Requirements

SAP HANA requires a Automation Process for a point in time Backup and Restore. The four areas requiring such are:-1) System Configuration2) HANA Studio and HANA Configuration3) Data 4) Logs Automation around trigger based HANA Backup1) SAP HANA sp...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Delivered

Integration into IBM TSM with SAP HANA

We need to be able to backup a SAP HANA appliance via the standard TSM and / or FlashCopy Manager capability within the customer estate. Therefore we need an SAP HANA client to be able to trigger a backup, offload data into a TSM-managed backup an...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

TSM for HANA

Amerisource Bergen is willing to act as a pilot for TSM on SAP HANA Appliance. The SAP HANA product is getting a lot of attention and our Certified HANA Appliance Solutions are falling short because we do not offer backup and recovery solutions, D...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Delete INACTIVE_VERSIONS vStorage Backups

The possibility to delete any files (ACTIVE or INACTIVE) vStorage Backups by TSM Client commands like work a TSM BaclientOr like this procedure: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21418136
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

mutually exclusive install options

When installing the TSM Server Code, the selection is available to install both the Server and the Storage Agent. Having both installed is not supported by IBM. The install code should be changed such that if both are selected for installation at ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM server v6 DB restore PIT should work without volhistory file available.

Since version 6.1 the volhistory file is mandatory to be able to restore a TSM server.Without this file a TSM DB restore is difficult (see APAR IC76069).With TSM 6.3 itis possible to rebuild the volhistory file but the assistance ofTSM support is ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

TDP for SQL BACKUP WITH CHECKSUM option

Customer Societe Generale is one of our top 5 TSM banking customer in France. Recently, they encountered a data corruption situation on ORACLE database backups due to hardware issues. They want to implement a process to check regularly (by sample)...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

Improve Bkup of SpMg migrated files that are renamed and have had their access permissions changed

In an attempt to avoid comprehensive SpMg recalls from regular Bkup, the client (DMI) would like for migrated files that are renamed (say moved to another sub-directory) AND have their access permission changed to be able to use inline Bkup (on th...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Delivered

TDP for SQL RESTORE VERIFYONLY option

Customer Societe Generale is one of our top 5 TSM banking customer in France. Recently, they encountered a data corruption situation on ORACLE database backups due to hardware issues. They want to implement a process to check regularly (by sample)...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

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