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    TSM TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time listing the restorable Items

    TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time to list the restorable items for a single item restore (around 8 min). Customer does not accept it and he is thinking of to change the backup software vendor.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Planned for future release

    FCM for Vmware to support Vmware Site Recovery Manager sites

    FCM for Vmware to support customer which also use vmware Site Recovery Manager.
    over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Dedup info command

    A tool for information of the status of DedupQ DEDUPlike 'sh dedupdeleteinfo' witch is a undocumented one
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

    Backup client for SAP HANA

    There is a need to develop a real backup solution for SAP HANA. As it is today all backups are done on a full-backup base from files. Since the database can be quite large this is a problem.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

    Dsmserv commands need date/time stamps

    All output from stand-along dsmserv commands should be prefixed with date/time stamps.� It would be nice to be able to easily calculate how long something like a restore db takes.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    Specify an output file for stand-alone dsmserv commands

    Specify an output file for stand-alone dsmserv commands such as the dsmserv restore db command so that the output can be saved for review later. Currently can�t do this, not even with the redirection character �>�.� Documentation is always a go...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    Provide strong authentication between TSM Server and TEC applications

    The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Server application should be able to provide strong authentication to Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) application, in order to provide security between both TSM and TEC servers and also to attend the ITCS 104 secti...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

    In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

    Update KSK SCHEDULE attribute group to allow schedule failures/misses to be monitored in ITM

    The ability to create 'Pure' monitoring situations against the KSK SCHEDULE attribute group to allow for situations to fire when a node's scheduled backup execution results in a terminal condition (i.e. Failed or Missed). Currently, if a situation...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

    Oracle Database Cloning improvements in FCM

    Two enhancements are requested. 1) Currently FCM requires environment variable ORACLE_HOME to be set in the users environment right after logon. We request that FCM should read this value from /etc/oratab so that we can have a single user for mult...
    about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Planned for future release

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