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VP Database Engineering

The tdpsqlc backup command should return the TSM object name of the backup when it completes.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

Add compression savings information to V7000 / SVC GUI

With the addition of 'Uncompressed Volume Size' to the RACE SDK version 1.88.7 and onwards, this information will be available through RACE API integrated into SVC/V7000 in environments using Real-time Compression capability. Since this informatio...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

TSM incremental backups of Hyper V .vhd files

Currently, TSM can only perform FULL backups of Microsoft Hyper V VHD files. Most of the competition (Netbackup, Commvault, DPM) can perform Incremental Backups of these files. Can we implement Change Block Tracking/Incremental backups for Hyper V...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Scripts executed on client to have parameters/environment variables

When trying to implement backup with proxy nodes (and placing all data on a single target-node), a problem arises. Since backups with proxy nodes requires the ASNODE parameter, and in a hosted environment it is not desirable to create customer spe...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

TDP agent Exchange 2010 DAG awareness

1. TDP agent aware of all the nodes in the DAG cluster so that they would be visible from any TDP agent GUI in the cluster. 2. TDP agent acts as the conductor on DAG setups when performing backup so backups can be started in parallel on each windo...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Delivered

TSM DB backups via HW snapshot

Enable backups of TSM's own internal DB by using hardware's snapshot ability in a way that updates archive logs appropriately, just as if a "real" DB backup was done.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Host Description in SVC/Storwize V7000 GUI

SVC GUI currently does not have a "description" for hosts. Often customers use cryptic names (eg DLCS001) for their servers and therefore host names within SVC GUI. Therefore the host name does not contain any information about location, applicati...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC Location information

We should add a location information for the SVC Clusters and individual nodes, so that in MetroMirror and Global Mirror as well as split cluster setups the user can more easily identify the location of entities.
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

VMware Backup Support for Vapps using Vstorage API & Exclude Raw Device Mapping Disk

The DSMC client using the "Backup VM" command fails to see and backup any virtual machines on a ESXi v4.1 server. This is somewhat critical for a Enterprise environment where we use Vapps to manage our servers! The Vstorage API shrinks the backup ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

dsmrm always delivers rc=0

dsmrm always delivers a return code of 0 regardless whether the action completes successfully or not. This makes it impossible for embedded applications (dsmrm is called by a script) to control if a dsmrm ended successfully or not. Return code 0 s...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Delivered

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