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Skipping sub-folder from TSM backup process without impacting its previous backup

I want to skip a sub-folder on a Windows drive (or a sub-directory on a Linux file system) from the TSM client incremental backup process. When I say 'skipping a sub-folder', I mean not to back up this sub- folder starting from tonight but not to ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TDP for VE backup exclude files

We have a Windows VM ware which having SQL database . We have scheduled the SQl backups through TDP for SQL and snapshot backup through TDP for VE(It's a client requirement ) So here we are facing an issue that Snapshot backup is taking the databa...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSMVE unable to backup VMs at highest parent folder level

Issue in scheduling backups using VSphere protection using TSMVE, where the VMware enviroment is setup as VCloud Director. As the setup for VMWare is VCD, each folder in VSphere represents a unique customer organization with long names having UUID...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Extend delete filespace command to provide ability for multiple filespace deletion

Provide an extension to delete filespace command to specify multiple comma separated filespace names or filespace id's and/or an option to excliude filespaces (e.g. like "delete filespace <nodename> * exclude.fs=<fs.anme or fs.id>").
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Enable ESS and Scale GUI option to enter an editable text box or a drop-down list

Add the ability, in the ESS and Spectrum Scale GUIs to be settable as a GUI login default an editable text box or a drop-down list for searching files. For example, add a search field option to search, export and apply filter for counting differen...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize support for Dell R710

Have Spectrum Virtualize, software only, to support the following server: Dell R710 with:2 x Intel Xeon X5650 2.66 GHz (6 cores per processor)24 GB RAM DDR-3 Registered DIMM, 1333 MHz 1x HBA Qlogic QLE2562 FC 8 Single Port, PCI Express FC81x HBA Q...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add option to not suspend oracle database during flashcopy

Would like the option to only place tables in backup mode and not suspend the database when working with Oracle RAC + ASM source.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Better Support for Windows Server Failover Clusters with Asymmetric Storage

Support for asymmetric storage configurations with Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) was added to Windows Server 2008 with hotfix KB976097 and is available with RTM versions of Windows Server 2012, 2012R2 and 2016. SQL Server 2014 AlwaysON a...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TDPOCONF - provide option for password command

Provide an option for tdpoconf password command to specify current and new password like:tdpoconf password -tdpo_optfile=<tdpo_optfile.opt> -currentpw=<currentpw> -newpw=<newpw>
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Monitoring/Reporting 7.1.3 IE11 support

Spectrum Protect (TSM) Monitoring/Reporting 7.1.3 requires IE8 or IE9 browsers. Microsoft, and my employer, are now supporting only IE11/Edge. The request is to update the software to provide a modern browser support point.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

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