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Dedup stats with brbackup/rman_util backups

When we use client deduplication, it is nice to know the amount of data remaining after the deduplication.We have this kind of information with the baclient, TDP for VE, TDP for Oracle, but nothing with the TDP for ERP / rman_util
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Prioritization for Protect integrated with CAP and Signature V4 support for Intel Community private Amazon cloud support

Requesting support for Intelligence Community Gov Cloud - Amazon C2S: CAP authentication support, and Signature V4 support.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TDPO/RMAN and TSM archive

Hello,We use RMAN/TDPO to backup Oracle DB.I would like to be able to do a TSM archive of those data, but all data sent to TSM are only backup type.As I understood (please confirm) this issue should be addressed to TDPO side (not RMAN side).Thanks...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

backup / restore @ CTIE of the BTRFS on SLES12

Support of Spectrum Protect to create image backups of BTRFS subvolumes, or at least of the BTRFS file system without unmounting any subvolumes. The capability should be enabled even if the customer only has BTRFS as volume manager ( ie without LV...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Not able to resolve the error code ANS2042W when symbolic link is created on different filesystem

Not able to resolve the error code ANS2042W when symbolic link is created on different filesystem
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

FB4W compression and subfile copy enable

Compression and Sub-File Copy features are not working simultaneously in FB4W Client
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

Allow server side encyption on DISK and DirectoryContainer storage pools

TSM server (IBM Spectrum Protect) cannot do server side encryption for storage pools that are not either LTO or cloud-based. We'd like to have an option to enable encryption on DISK or DirectoryContainer based storage pools (knowing that deduplica...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Fine control for node replication of databases

When database RPO is 24hrs or more, it makes no sense to replicate the database transaction logs (Oracle, MSSQL, DB2). Transaction logs do not deduplicate and therefore accounts for a significant overhead in cross-site replication. It would be goo...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Need TSM client timeout

There should be some way to automatically recover from issue when TSM client could not communicate to TSM server in the middle of the session.Imagine the situation:1. Archive session was started from the client2. Client successfully connected to t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

Delete schedule via VMCLI

We use VMCLI to schedule "run now" schedules in TSMVE via a custom script. After a few days the schedule page in the web gui is full and will not load. We want the ability to remove (now) schedules via VMCLI so that we can cleanup the schedule lis...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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