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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

planexpl.awk.smp script should create an individual file for the SERVER.RERQUIREMENTS stanza.

The packaged script to explode the DR Plan into individual files (i.e. planexpl.awk.smp) currently does not create an individual file for the SERVER.RERQUIREMENTS stanza. The stanza SERVER.RERQUIREMENTS should be included in these scripts so when ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

ANR8341I End-of-volume reached for FILE volume

ACTION TAKEN: I informed the customer after discussion with development:We have had multiple discussions with different developers and each timewe get to the same point of this is not something that we can fix in an APAR. This is working as design...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add filspace start/backup end time to Monitoring for TSM

The monitoring agent for Tivoli Storage Manager should collect information about backup start and end time for filespace backups (Occupancy view in Tivoli Enterprise Portal). This information is easily collectable in TSM database.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Planned for future release

TSM node replication needs to support a Many to Many Server Grid

TSM Node Replication needs to allow the target replication server to be defined on a node by node basis rather than a server by server basis
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 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

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