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Storage Protect Family

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Metadata only replication

Metadata only replication should allow user to replicate either File volumes via the SAN stack or Virtual Tape via a VTL device. This would make a VTL device more attractive and financially viable solution.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Legal Hold Requirement

Long term data retention and legal hold requirement is to provide the ability to reclassify/re-use existing backups without the need to change management classes, or multiple backups of data (see also RFE 29528). Customer expressed the desire to u...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion)

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion) - Customer is writes their own automation scripts but would like to see this natively in the TSM product.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

RFE for 'BACKUP CHECK LOGICAL' with TSM for ERP - FCM backup using rman for a SAP database.

We are trying to use IBM TFCM to take SAP backups and also make use of the rman 'BACKUP CHECK LOGICAL' option as we do with a native oracle TFCM backup. We did ask if it was possible and if so should the init<SID>.utl file be the place where...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Journal based backup for Sun Solaris

Support for journal based backup as on AIX and Windows.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

vmhost can not use IP-Addresses instead of FQDN

it is not possible to use the ip-address in a "backup vm vmhost=###.###.###.###" statement. The ESX-Server is registered with his ip in the vCenter Server interface.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

TSM for DB - SQL Scalability Enhancement for Large SQL Cluster Environments at Providence Health

Please Note Jim Smith may have further detail seeing how he was on the call with the customer when the customer expressed their concerns. 1) When you have a Cluster with More than a single SQL server running on it, you need either multiple TSM sch...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Population of the "Remarks" field in both SYSCAT.TABLES and SYSCAT.COLUMNS

This is not actually a request for a "new" feature, but the return of one that previously existed in TSM v5. The "Remarks" field in both the SYSCAT.TABLES and SYSCAT.COLUMNS schema's used to be populated with a description of each table and/or col...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3 Cognos Data Model not use hardcoded schema name of ITMUSER

See Use Case for our ITM, TDW, TCR, TSM environment. PMR 84654 057 649 opened with TSM 6.3 Cognos Data Model and reports failing with error message "UDA-SQL-0196 The table or view $object was not found in the dictionary.". This is due to TSM 6.3 C...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

TSM control on Out-of-place restore

We are asked for TSM to restrict the possibility of an out-of-place restore . This is a requirement from the security dept of the customer we're working on.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

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