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tdpoconf limitations when configuration TDP for oracle

TDPOCONF is limited as we cannot parse additional parameters when we run the password configuration. Ideally, it would be best if we could run tdpoconf password and automatically parse the password automatically within a script. This is a major ro...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TSM: Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a Linux cluster environment

Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a cluster environment
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TDP For erp sap_hana

Despite what is written in the documentation Versioning is not available for SAP_HANA backups. I would like to have the MAX_VERSION available so as to age backups. At the same time I want SAP HANA to be aware about the deletion of those old backups.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Enhance define volume command with additional parameter

When defining a Sequentialfilevolume, it appears instantly in the filesystem. This is possible, because the internal structure of the volume will be created later, when data is written to it. This was introduced somewhere in TSM Version 6.3 and us...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

tsm4ve "file restore" in tape mode is unusable in rel 7.1.3

The file restore webpage "https:\\vserver::9081\FileRestoreUI" is unuseable in tape mode. The documents claim that it will be slower, however it the data is not PRESTAGED to disk it interface is unusable.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Incremental forever Hyper-V backup setting host in snapshot mode.

Running a Hyper-V incremental forever backup, the system is creating a AVHDX snapshot, to keep track of the changes between backups. This set the host to run in "snapshot" mode and consumes space on the system. The space used will over time increa...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Rocket Adapter for XtremIO

COTY is looking to use FCM for ERP on XtremIO. They need a rocket adapter built.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Restore or server migration: delete inactive files on destination file system

We have "dsmc rest Image c: -incre -deletefiles" (image + last incremental - deletion of the inactive marked files at the TSM server) to be able to restore the last status of a file system. Can we have "dsmc rest \\OldServer\Oldshare\*.* \\NewServ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Update to TSMJBB daemon

We have been having AIX lpars with busy filesystems, 'lock up' with the tsmjbbd daemon running. It would be better if the tsmjbbd could issue some sort of warning instead of locking up the server. The PMR that caused this request was 82029.082.000...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Support for SQL Server Express Edition

Please support SQL Server Express Edition. Technically, this should be no different than Standard Edition.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

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