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TDP for SQL tail-log backup NORECOVERY option

In MS SQL it is possible to do a log backup with option NORECOVERY. It will take the database into restoring state to prevent any changes being made to the database after the tail of the log has been backed up. This document describes some scenari...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

Use TDPOSYNC with control file

The TDPOSYNC utility is used in conjunction with an RMAN catalog to clear out oracle backup objects that have been orphaned in the TSM Server. Oracle RMAN can also use a control file to store this information, instead of the RMAN catalog. However,...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Default setting for EasyTier should be "On" rather than "auto"

By default, Easy Tier is set to "auto" which means that when SSDs are added to a pool, at that point a dpa_heat file is created and data migration takes place. The dpa_heat file can be used in conjunction with the Storage Tier Advisor Tool to dete...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

ATAP driver support for RHEL 6.4

Customer migrating TSM servers to RHEL 6.4 and require ATAP support on this OS.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

v7000 Cluster Volume Mirror

When 2 v7000's are clustered it would be extremely useful to be able to setup a Volume Mirror to mirror a volume one one v7000 to a volume mirror on the other v7000. This functionality IS available on the SVC so it would be great to have it on the...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Allow FastBack DR Hub replication to have both a scheduled Start AND STOP time to limit impact on Business applications.

In DR Configuration / DR Scheduler / Advanced panel, add the ability to schedule a specific time for the DR Replication to Stop, on specified days. This would allow the DR Replication to start at the same time every day, but on certain days, ie we...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Delivered

512 LUN max per host

There is a Current limitation of 512 LUNs per host on the V7K; Customer requires at least 1024 luns attached to the same host.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)

Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). OEL is based on RHEL but was extended with a specific modified Kernel by Oracle. As also the native RHEL Kernel is included in OEL and FCM is supported for RHEL, it should be supported for OEL, too. Oracl...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

Reduce permissions required

We would highly appreciate if you could investigate the real permission requirements for the backup service account. Organisatio Level requirement is too high, other vendors are currently investigating and providing test patches.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 4 Delivered

Backupset performance and backupset colliding with reclaim and expiration

We have had problems with crashing backupsets because backupsets collide with reclaim and expiration processes when executed. We have managed to do a workaround so that reclaim and expiration are not executed while backupsets are created. This how...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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