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TSM for ERP: Support for MSSQL database

Currently TSM for ERP (SAP) is available for Windows platforms but only if SAP is used in conjunction with Oracle or DB2 databases.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

TSM file devclass support for multiple directories

When defining file type of devclass, the directory options can be multiple directories. define devc fileclass devtype=file directory=/back1,/back2 Currently the backup will not use the second directory /back2 unless its size is smaller than /back1...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

AIX support for ibm HH LTO5

IBM HH LTO 5 is currently only supported X Series.Request to work on AIX.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 4 Not under consideration

Improvements needed for planfile scripts for Tivoli Storage Manager

The process of building a server, extracting and using the DRM planfile scripts, and recovering the TSM server is convoluted and difficult, especially when you are in a time-critical recovery test or event. These procedures should be re-created as...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

To enable SSL to transitional for nodes automatically without human intervention

We are often facing backup failure due to SSL connection failure which needs to be updated manually from SP servers As we have only client support, we are fully dependent on SP Server team, due to that process, backup is impacting we need a soluti...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

[Copy] Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

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