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    If TSM hasn't got Full backup of SQL DB, raise Diff/log backup to Full

    Now when a 'tdpsqlc backup diff' backup runs for a SQL db instance only DB's with existing Full backup are backed up. DB's that have just been created will make the schedule that starts the backup fail with an error in the tdpsqlc log like this: "...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

    Change incremental action on change to ACL or xattr

    Currently, TSM will back up an entire file if the ACL or extended attributes of the file are changed, rather than updating the metadata. See:https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21448429 This leads to a lot of duplicate backups, and ...
    almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Windows explorer Feature

    This demand aims at implementing a new feature providing a windows explorer like feature Please check the attached slides for more details
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    Horizontal scaling of spcetrum environement in Openshift

    In order to optimize the general performance of the Discover spectrum environment implemented in Openshift, it seems important to us to consider that benefiting from the horizontal scalability capabilities in Openshift would be a must For example,...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    STA path need to update after drive replacement

    As an example of TS3200 LTO6 drives which we have in our infra whenever we found any drive issue and after replacement of this drive we are getting new serial number and same we are updating on tsm server with below command upd dr libraryname driv...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Functionality already exists

    Production restore folder

    "Restore in production mode if Vcenter is down" option works but this restore creates a directory in the datastore with the name of VM. If the VM folder is not identical to VM name, the production restore doesn't maitain the original name.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership

    IBM Spectrum Protect Server v8.1.9.300:Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership Currently, the replicate node command works on node names, lists of node names, wildcards of node names, node groups, or lists of node groups. We wish...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Which userid does restore a file ?

    For tracing, for auditing reasons we want to know the TSM administrator name of the administrator which restores an object (file, directory).TSM web client is used for the restore.Looking in server actlog there are two messages ANR0503I (with the ...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    TSM Image Backup of encrypted Guardium FS (secfm)

    Current Situation and urgent request for enhancement: In our customer environment and according projects encryption services for a Filesystems or Databases are introduced on a regular basis. TSM as our backup suite therefore needs the ability to h...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

    There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
    almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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