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TSM support for MongoDB

Integration between full online and incremental backups of Mongo databases with TSM in a similar way as Oracle, DB2 or other databases supported by TSM do with Data Protection for Database. A
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Cancel Backup StoragePool command

TSM is a great product, but the automation of an Enterprise-class deployment cannot be done entirely within TSM alone. You already have a CANCEL EXPIRATION command, which cancels the expiration without needing to know the process number. I would l...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM for DB support for Oracle 12c on AIX 7.1

Customer is upgrading Oracle to version 12c on AIX 7.1 64 bit. They use RMAN and TSM for DB to back up Oracle. They require support for this combination, which isn't in TSM for DB 7.1 per the support page.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

TSM summary table should provide accurate info on backup status, regardless of the used scheduler within the environment

The SUCCESSFUL field in the SUMMARY table is not a valid representation of the "success" or "failure" of Backup-Archive Client operations. Rather, it maps to the "Normal server termination" field in the TSM server accounting records.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Windows 2012 R2 support

Hi. We need to be able to backup Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 clients. Please provide a TSM BA-client that supports this as our customers are asking for it now.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

TSM client support for Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1 has been released; how soon will it be supported?
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

TSM Client for Macintosh OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

Apple released OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) yesterday - and as a free upgrade. As such, users have already upgraded to this OS, and want to be able to backup their systems
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

"MAXPROCESS" Parameter for "BACKUP NODE" Command

Presently, when issuing the "BACKUP NODE" command against a NetApp or System-N filer (without specifying a volume, or volumes), a backup process for every volume on the filer is immediately, and concurrently, created. The filer, of course, cannot ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Node Replication needs to replicate nodes without filespaces as well

Node Replication only replicates nodes with filespaces.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Use DB2 compression for TSM DB backup

Enhance the TSM server command "BACKUP DB" to allow for DB2 backup compression!
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

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