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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 ...
almost 12 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
almost 12 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.
almost 12 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.
almost 12 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 ...
about 12 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
about 12 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.
about 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.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

TSM Client Install

Installing TSM B/A client without impacting other products using IBM GSKit. We wanted to not replace the existing "c:\program files\gskx" folderone solution could create an new V6.2.x compatible gskit folder in the same directory or to allow to ch...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Add Line of failure for command schedules

I would like to see particularly which line of a TSM script failed when running. Currently I believe Query EVent would only tell me that my administration script failed. It would be good if it showed as Failed (ln32) then I could look into my scri...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release