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Request to change the use of Name servers in stead of /etc/hosts file

Tivoli products are still dependent of using /etc/hosts file instead of using Name Servers. Is it not a bit old fashioned the use of /etc/hosts file?We do not use the /etc/hosts file but when we want to upgrade TSM server we need to put all kind o...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

No Exchange Dumster functionality by IMR

Since Exchange 2010, Mailbox and DB-dumpster are an important feature for customers. TDPE 6.x is always backing up these data via VSS/Snapshot technologies. Unfortenatly, TDPE 6.X is not able to restore these kind of datas. The customer who is usi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

IMR restore account to powerful

Every IMR enabled windows account has to have the "Organization Management group" assigned, to full fill any IMR-Operation on any Microsoft Exchange version with any TDPE 6.x version. From security point of view, this not acceptable. Any security ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

Error message missing encryption code in proxy node restore on exported data

message to user that encryption code is missing or needed when restoring fra tdp exchange gui with exportet node data using the vss restore metode
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

message in export/import telling you no receiving node has been defined or haver export/import fail if no receiving node defi

for export/import have the process fail if there is no node defined on the receiving system. At the very least have a message saying the process failed because no node was defined on the receiving system.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Please add some kind of reporting

Please expose the reporting in Data Protection for SQL Server. In the new management console there is a report named "Data Protection Activity Report". We would like to be able to gather the success/failures externally.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

Support for SAP API for SAP HANA next release (SPS5)

Currently TDP for SAP HANA 6.4 supports HANA release SPS4. The next release of SAP HANA will ship an API which must be used in order to take backups. In order to be ready to support future HANA releases, TDP for SAP HANA needs to support this SAP ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Planned for future release

Show more VM details in the BAclient Restore Window

Show more details about the VM in the restore window. Useful would be information about: Storage Demand (Thin with the real demand/Thick), Disk-Layout, Datacenter, Datastore
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

implement SQL backup COPY_ONLY

The SQL has the option to create a full DB Backup that does not interfere with the normal backup full, diff, log chain with the COPY-ONLY parameter.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

I would like to know if there is a simple TSM reporting tool that could email me a summary of the nightly backups.

I would like a simple reporting tool that would email me a daily report of backup schedules, which were successful and which were not, number of scratch tapes available and what items failed to backup.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

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