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    Hana DB & Log filsystem split

    For our regular restore test we do export/import between zone server and central one.If we want to export a DB backup and 7 days of logs we have the problem that all of this goes to the same filesystem /tdpmux and if we export from a ranged period...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

    Modify 'Protected and Unprotected VMs' report to allow display of only unprotected VM

    The current report shows both protected and unprotected VMs in report and allow to hide Unprotected VM. However there is no report which can display only unprotected VM. Business Justification: We have thousands of VMs part of protection and their...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

    In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Support newer browsers (IE11/Edge, for example) in TSM Monitoring

    Monitoring/Reporting for Spectrum Protect must be updated to allow browsers beyond IE8 and IE9 for login to JazzSM to manage Cognos Reporting. Those browsers are the only officially supported by IBM, but are no longer supported by Microsoft. IE11/...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

    Add functionality to TSM Operations Center related to Tape Drives Usage/Mounts Reports

    System: Spectrum Protect Operations CenterActor: Spectrum Protect Operations CenterUser needing reporting features to assess tape drives usage/mounts in order to provide analysis for future needs in tape drive growth/usage. Description: Operations...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

    TDP for VE: execution of scheduled backups can not be viewed, but manual executions can

    TSM for VE admin needs all funcionality in his workspace, the TDP for VE GUI , therefore visibility of scheduled backups required even though actually not executed by TDP for VE;
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Enhancemnt request for setup.sh in TDP HANA 8.1.1.0 for non-local sidadm users support

    We had opened case (TS001622349) as we were getting user related error while running setup.sh for Data Protection for SAP HANA 8.1.1.0 because we are not using local user. hanatest02:/opt/tivoli/tsm/tdp_hana # ./setup.shIBM Spectrum Protect for En...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Future consideration

    Options to disable Dual control for few sessions

    We have enabled dual control for our CSM server, but there are some sessions which are managed by API or manual control. In those cases, having dual control makes it little difficult to implement since we need a 2nd ID to approve the activity. Wou...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    TSM4VE - Hyper-V: Do not leave open snapshots after IFFULL or IFINCR backups

    System: Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments / Hyper-V component. Description: By leaving open snapshots and actually writing on that snapshot and not parent disk, additional space is acquired that customer's storage has not been designed for.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Archive log utilization query

    TSM 6.1 and up have no way to show the archive log utilization in the admin client. This seems to be an oversight. The query log command should be able to display this info. It should also be available via a select statement. The only way to get t...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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