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Storage Protect Family

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Query Event for NDMP Backup

We want to add a new entry in the database under Summary table called Filespace or BCK_Volume or similar, This failed should include the entry of what Volume on the NetApp that TSM was backed up and if it was OK or not.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

Change dsmc selective to handle *, ?, doublequote, singlequote as nonmetacharacters

We want Linux GPFS mmbackup to backup all files that are legal in GPFS. Certain filenames currently cannot be backed up from mmbackup (RedHat Enterprise Linux5.6 (64bit), GPFS 3.3.0-14, TSM client 6.2.2.0, TSM server 6.1.2.1) because of the presen...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Planned for future release

Catastrophy updating Spectrum Protect Server from 7.1.7.307 ... to 8.1.1.100

Please refer to PMR 64051,075,724.As a customer there are too many errors to be found in those upgrade routines. And it takes too long to get them fixed. I request you to improve the installation routines for Spectrum Protect products.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Keep transaction logs online as long as possible

The DB2 database has to allways retrieve all transaction logs from backup, even though the information might still be online.------------------------------------------------Here is an description how the backup is working today in DB2 The current ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Add TSM for ERP session identifier for the improved collocation

Currently, when TSM for ERP is used to backup DB2 database, it assignes the same filespace name to all backups stored on the TSM Server. This results in various undesired consequences for the backups of large databases which are normally performed...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Not under consideration

Re-Map Volume Location

It would be beneficial to be able to offline a volume in a storage pool, for example your backuppool. Then at the OS level be able to manually move or copy the volume to a new physical location, log back into the TSM service and run a update vol t...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Make TSM for VE a "HA" solution

During the backup the virtual machine is “freezed” (which seems the normal way the “quiescing” that VM initiates on behalf of the backup application is done). As the customer is running Linux in some VMs and is also running an “HA” solution in two...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM client scheduler improvements

TSM client scheduler (or some other client service) should be track if the last scheduled backup was successful and if not, there should be a way to configure the service to perform an action.E.g. the last schedule was missed, so the scheduler ser...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Data collector for Spectrum protect

I would like to know if ISA data collector is available for Spectrum protect product ( TSM ) ?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Incorrect access permissions and ownership info when creating directories during restores

We know that there are two limitations in SP for Virtual Environment. We need to restore directories with the same access permissions and ownership information that they had during backup time. Directories that are created during a restore operati...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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