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Storage Protect Family

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SQL Service User per SQL instance

We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Working as designed -- Content of dsm.opt file disappeared?

Content of dsm.opt file can be lost
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Moving backupsets between device types

We are moving to a tapeless Tivoli environment. We have many backupsets on LTO cartridges that need to be kept forever (so they say). I need a method of moving these backupsets to a disk device type. This will keep us from having to keep an LTO dr...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Query output explanation required

HelloPlease provide me with the detailed explanation of the output (columns and their values) of command that is executed on the datamover: SHOW VM ALLThank you.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Journal Based Backup Stall

In this case, the journal database was not updating and so backups became stale until a Full Incremental was run. This request is for a monitoring alert for when the journal db does not receive any updates, perhaps in the last 24 hours.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Is a defect

Provide a way to show running TSM scripts and to cancel them

Currently there is now way to show which TSM scripts have been startet and furthermore they cannot be stopped. The only way to finish a script prematurely is to cancel every process that is startet by the script or to define exit conditions such a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

systemd init scripts with BA client on linux platforms

Given that all supported Linux platforms by the Tivoli Storage Manager B/A client have shifted to systemd init, provide both systemv and systemd startup scripts and either make a decision at install time or let users choose which method to use aft...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Support to backing up MongoDB on Ubuntu servers

We have MongoDB on Ubuntu servers and need to backup them.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Backing up prefered SQL Always-on node

We want to be able to choose which node to backup on a SQL Always-on infrastructure.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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