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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Operation Center Reporting, enhanced capabilities

Two items:Reporting in Operations Center by mail is limited to only simple mail. Sending reports is only possible hourly, daily or weekly.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Oracle log truncate on Spectrum Protect Plus

Need for SPP to delete Oracle/dBase log with a user defined frequency.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SAP HANA backup status reporting in Spectrum Protect OC

Spectrum Protect Operations Center does not report nor is aware if a Backup is successful or if it is failed. Instead a log is created on every server which we have to manually parse and reactively report a backup failure. This is an effort since ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

TSM4VE backup schedule ends with RC=12 when there is no guest eligible for backup

Change the RC to 0 or 1 if no virtual guest is eligible for backup but the overall backup status is successful.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM does not start Migrations properly

TSM-Server does not start any new Migrations if there is still 1 Migration running from the previous "reaching HiMig".Example1. HiMig reached = 8 migrations started for diskpool2. Migrations running an decreasing utilisation of pool3. LoMig reache...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

The result of DSCLI command showckdvol is too slow. Related to TS010511348.

To find out which SafeGuarded Copy page is used, we need to issue showckdvol commands on each volume. We have many volumes and each order takes a long time (sometimes more than a minute). How to have a better response time on this order? This idea...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Agregate messages on DS8000's HMC. Related to TS010580871.

On the HMC of DS8000, some messages appear several hundred times (1 message per volume). Would it be possible to combine these messages into a generic message? And to allow them to be seen by unfolding the generic message (example by clicking on +...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Multisite Connect

When backing up a big VMware environment it is necessary that the customer can select multiple vCenters as source and multiple Spectrum Protect Servers as Backup destination.Enable management of data protection for multiple vCenters from a single ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Disable the necessary SMB V1 to install product of TSM throught Installation Manager

Install Tivoli Storage Manager products using the Installation Manager it is necessary to have enable the SMB1 protocol.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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