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backup stgpool improvements

Backup storage pool sometimes is 'hanging' waiting for a tape still in use. That causes issues with the replication, since the next backup storage pool won't run in the next day, because previous one is still running waiting for a tape for the las...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Backup And Restore Oracle Database Using GUI

kindly it is requested for development to backup and restore oracle database using GUI which gives you more easier jobs than command lines.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Delivered

Recovery mailbox EXCHANGE

The feature exists, but don´t work correctly. TDP EXCHANGE don´t work fine and in several situations we aren´t able to recovery mailboxes. The tools designed don´t work as expected
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

TDP rebinding of all inactive backups to new management class

When management class changes for TDP backups TDP will rebind all previous backups to the new management class. This is opposite to TSM file level behaviour. Backups that have long retention like 7 years would all be lost by simple management clas...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

Single Item Restore - Security Risk

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager must be operating in an account with membership in the Organization Management group. You must also have local Administrator privilege.For Mailbox Restore and Mailbox Restore Browser operations, membership in t...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

Selective nodes for Expire Inventory

Option to be able to run selective multiple processes of Expire Inventory based on nodename, not nodeid. (addendum to request 24475). Command could be EXPIRE INVENTORY NODE=<node_name> with ability to do use node name masking: eg EXPIRE INVE...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

GUI diplay of Nodes should be sorted ny Node name rather than NODE ID.

When the nodes for a cluster are displayed though the GUI, they are sorted by Node ID within an IO group instead of physical placement in the cluster. . The Node ID changes every time a node is shutdown and/or removed & re-added to the cluster...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SQL TDP Parallelization

Today, a large database is backed up as one object. This large database backup requires a great deal of time. If the TDP could break the large databae up into smaller increments, parallelization could be introduced into the backup and thus, reduce...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

Individual File Restore XFS Support

Currently TSM4VE Individual File Restore does not support XFS file systems. However, XFS is used very commonly in Linux systems because of it's high performance.In SLES for example XFS is the recommended choice for large file systems. Our research...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

FCM: File-level backups from a VSS offload mount of file system backups

Currently FlashCopy Manager v3.1 does have this functionality with NTFS volumes:- create a VSS snapshot of a NTFS volume on host A- mount this VSS snapshot as a new drive letter on host A- unmount this VSS snapshot on host A. This RFE is about the...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

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