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Provide enhanced reporting to indicate age of data being restored

Executives would like to see statistics on the age of files being restored, where age is elapsed time from when the file being restored was backed up. When a restore completes there should be data generated to provide either the age of the object ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

Journal based backup for Sun Solaris

Support for journal based backup as on AIX and Windows.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

vmhost can not use IP-Addresses instead of FQDN

it is not possible to use the ip-address in a "backup vm vmhost=###.###.###.###" statement. The ESX-Server is registered with his ip in the vCenter Server interface.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

TSM for DB - SQL Scalability Enhancement for Large SQL Cluster Environments at Providence Health

Please Note Jim Smith may have further detail seeing how he was on the call with the customer when the customer expressed their concerns. 1) When you have a Cluster with More than a single SQL server running on it, you need either multiple TSM sch...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

The backup not continue after detect this problem: ANS1028S An internal program error occurred

The backup not continue after detect this problem: ANS1028S An internal program error occurred. Detail error reported is: . 2012-03-24 12:11:57 ANS9999E ntrc.cpp(768): Received Win32 RC 1235 (0x000004d3) from FileRead(): ReadFile '\\cluster32\n$\G...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

Population of the "Remarks" field in both SYSCAT.TABLES and SYSCAT.COLUMNS

This is not actually a request for a "new" feature, but the return of one that previously existed in TSM v5. The "Remarks" field in both the SYSCAT.TABLES and SYSCAT.COLUMNS schema's used to be populated with a description of each table and/or col...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3 Cognos Data Model not use hardcoded schema name of ITMUSER

See Use Case for our ITM, TDW, TCR, TSM environment. PMR 84654 057 649 opened with TSM 6.3 Cognos Data Model and reports failing with error message "UDA-SQL-0196 The table or view $object was not found in the dictionary.". This is due to TSM 6.3 C...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

TSM control on Out-of-place restore

We are asked for TSM to restrict the possibility of an out-of-place restore . This is a requirement from the security dept of the customer we're working on.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

UEFI Support for Fastback BMR

Backup and Restore (BMR) of UEFI platform servers using UEFI aware operating systems. (Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012)
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for BMR 4 Not under consideration

Incorrect steps on windows backup archive client instalation guide

On page52, step 6, it's not clear that the key to be entered on the cluster configuration needs to EXCLUDE the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\, or the cluster won't let the key be added. I think there should be an example clarifying it. I.e., registry key HKE...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Is a defect

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