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Database temp space usage

Currently any large SQL queries results in using up all the remaining DB space. This causes shutdown and loss of service.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SVC upgrade test utility usage design change

1. The svcupgradetest utility currently does not allow the "-f" and "-v" flags to be used together on the same command line. Currently the "-f" flag can only be used with the "-d" flag. When the "-f" and -v" flag are used simultaneously, such as "...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

could you please correct a document?

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672351 If 6.4.2 is not supported for 5.1 U3, could you please update this information to the technote for clarity ? (I think we can clear the support information when you create the sigle table fo...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Tintri support with TSM-VE

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments is not currently listed as integrating with TinTri storage.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TDP for implementing SAP Hana on Suse 12 operating system

We actually are in a critical situation, all new Lenovo Hardware can not be installed with SUSE 11, we urgently need TDP for Sap Hana with support for SUSE 12, so that we can continue with the implementation and give service to the customers accor...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM should back up files with timestamps before 01.01.1970 and after 19.01.2038

TSM should handle dates < 1/1/1970 01:00 and dates > 1/19/2038 04:04:07.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TDP for VE - DP for Hyper-V to include backup for both VHD and VHDX formatted guests.

If the TDP for VE - DP for Hyper-V is installed, you are limited to backup IFFULL or IFINCR only guests in VHDX format. To both backup VHD and VHDX formatted guests on a single Hyper-V host. If you want to backup both VHD and VHDX hyper-V guests w...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Silent mode for STAT tool

With the Heatmap STAT tool would be the ability to have it run in silent mode. In its current state, it has to be run interactively and someone has to hit return for it to complete which makes scripting difficult.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TSM for MAIL Exchange - DAG Passive DB not HEALTHY not backed up

It looks like 2 databases (one healthy and one unhealthy) need to be backed up, we skip the unhealthy one and back up the healthy one. Then we return success (RC = 0), because we backed up the healthy one successfully. This is by design. I think t...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Custom values for failover server (TSM Client node)

Allow custom settings for failover server in client dsm.sys Current soultion will overwrite failover server settings in dsm.sys A few possibilites arise:- Publish values for each node from the node definition on the tsm server- Allow per node a cu...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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