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Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file.

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file. Currently what happens is whenver TDP SQL backup encounter an offline SQL DB backup get failed for DB and return code for the bac...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

SPP - Change Message "CTGGA2192" from Error to Warning

Change Message "CTGGA2192: No volumes were replicated because there were no new snapshots. Please ensure that the backup completed successfully and the frequency of the Replication is less than the backup frequency." from Error to Warning. If ther...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

The problem of ANE4007E in your case is because you try to backup CITRIX files with a Reparse Tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_CITRIX_PM (

We are not able to backup user profiles for windows server that belongs to citrix environement.Refer IBM case id for etailed information about case and let me kow if more information needed for thia case.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Administraive user on Filer

for clustured-data ONTAP NetApp filers, the only capability that is required is ontaoapi with the admin role
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

RFE to allow exclusion of files and folders from a VE backup

When doing VM backup using TSM4VE, is there any way to exclude swap and C:\temp from the backup? They take up considerable space and resources even if everything gets deduplicated out eventually. Type Amount inspected [GB] Amount backed up [GB]VM ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

RFE: Simplify management in allowing native user to cahnge their own password.

Any native user that is able to login into SPP should be able to set/change their own password regardless of the resource groups and roles assigned to them
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Azure Archive Tier Blob Tagging

Azure Archive tier is only usable by changing blobs after write. Archive blobs are not readable, but metadata is still there. It's very similar to HSM, with a recall delay of up to 15 hours. Archive tier has a very low storage cost, and is suitabl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect: Integration of exfs -filesystem needed, minor changes to xfs, HPE will give assistance

IBM supports XFS as filesystem in IBM spectrum protect Linux-client. We were using this solution on our scientific-storage for several years now (Suse SLES 11 with HA and XFS (CXFS as well at our second company site) as filesystem on our disk-shel...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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