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Backup Solution for Oracle 19c

We have to be able to backup Oracle 19c
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

Allow SP for VE for Hyper-v REST API timeout to be adjustable

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment for Hyper-V 8.1.9 GUI times out after 15-20 minutes, and disconnects REST API session, making all manual backup running via Data Protection for Hyper-V GUI to fail and process status no longer visible. Plea...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

On install OC accept unaccepted characters in the password , installation fails later on.

On install of Operations Center one is requested to enter a password, a list of special character is listed however the installer at this point do not check if the password I enter is valid. The installation continues but hangs later on installing...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Vsnaps with several interfaces.

We have two ethernet networks one 10GB and the other 1GB. The Vmware env has the two networks and Oracle has only 1GB. If I configure the Vsnap with both networks it uses 1GB for Vmware where we have 10 and 1 GB Ethetnet network, I would like to k...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

ANR2578W and ANR2579E - Include node hostname information

One of the roadblocks we have at the moment is that the missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname of the node. ANR2578W Schedule schedule name in domain domain name for node node name has missed its scheduled start up windo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Avoid restore from copy pool when primary pool is of type VTL

Currently, when backup data is stored in both a primary and a copy pool, TSM restores this data from the pool where the data is located on less tapes. The disadvantage of this method: When using a VTL for the primary pool and physical tape for the...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Tape management in Operations Center

Using the TSM Operations Center - manage tape. Checkin, checkout, volume occupancy.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

File restore GUI: Microsoft Windows user account cannot access its own user folders

When using File Restore GUI to restore single files to a Windows vm you get an access denied error when trying to restore files and folders protected by UAC. This can be profile folders (C:\Users) or the DATA folder in a SQL instance. The problem ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

VMware Linux File-Level Restore Using Active Directory Domain Login ID

VMware Linux File-Level Restores does not allow for Microsoft Active Directory Domain based User Logins with Multifactor Authentication.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM Auto-Deploy/OC and roadmap for ability to Custom Install Package

We are looking for the ability to add a custom installable component like "TSM Web Client" to an auto-deploy upgrade.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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