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Storage Protect Family

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backupManagementTag: Unassigned instead of excluded

'dsmc show VM all' command output displaying "backupManagementTag: Unassigned" for excluded guests.Example :backupManagementTag: UnassignedbackupManagementTagSource: Tag on (vSphere object name) (mobid)
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Enhance TDP for Oracle to enable an option to bypass the catalog and access inactive backups

Enhance the product (all TDP's for Databases but in this case specifically for Oracle) to enable recovery of inactive backups (not in the catalog).
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Be able to specify the order of VM Backups

We want to be able to specify the order that virtual machines are backed up to fit in with time constraints that specific server present for the backup window
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

File Restore from Image backup

I would like to propose an enhancement to TSM's image-level backup feature such that the recovery of individual or multiple file and/or directory objects is possible. This would provide a "best of both worlds" in the sense that very large scale fi...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect

DD Boost for OpenStorage

We need an OST plug-in that we will install on each media server. This plug-in includes the DDBoost libraries to integrate with the DD Boost server that runs on the Data Domain system.With EMC Data Domain Boost (DD Boost) for OpenStorage enables m...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE within vCenter web client

TSM for VE vCenter plugin currently integrated into the vCenter web client Since the direction VMware appears to be heading with the vSphere client is a web-only client (not a .Net "fat" client), efforts need to be made to create the same function...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scripts and substitution variables. User defined error message when parm is not used

Concerning TSM script with parameters. We use a lot of Selects (SQL) and most of them needs a parameter. The possibility to check if a user did start a TSM script with a parameter ($1, $2 etc)When not entered a parameter, let the user know which p...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

ALLOWREORGTABLE as a TSM command

It would be nice if ALLOWREORGTABLE were a TSM command and we didn't have to restart the server and change the dsmserv.opt file. Production systems can't afford to take down the server and start the server in order to make a change like that.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

More characters for the Options file in ISPforVMWare or Folder selection

It´s not possible to use the new ISP for VMWare GUI to backup a big VMware Environment. Problem here is: If you add to much VM´s in the selection list through the wizard, the optfionsfile get´s to big. --> anr2603e update schedule options strin...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration