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    Snapshot backup attempted & error shows job failed,when only database snapshot failed,everything else backed up successfully.

    Currently, a snapshot backup is attempted and it generates an error that the job has failed when really it hasn't, only the database snapshot has failed, all the other databases get backed up successfully. This results in additional overhead for a...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

    TSM for Mail for 64bit Domino on Linux x64

    There's currently no compatible TSM for Mail client available in order to backup a server running IBM Domino 9 - 64bit for Linux.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

    Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree.

    Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree. Our customer is interesting in doing simultaneous backup to primary and copy storage pool.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Error message by failover form IPv6 to IPv4

    Every time a server switches from IPv6 to IPv4 it throws an error message. A warning would be more appropriate.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    FCM: User Interface

    - Unified GUI for Unix/Linux/VMware/Windows- Show where (FCM, and/or TSM) the backups are and which backp-version of which application exist- Same look and feel like the TPC 5.1 WebGUI- WebGUI- Central interface for all FCM flavours- Optional Inte...
    over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries

    We have the requirement to connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries (readonly, so only select) and have some questions: - If we run a pod with our Python code in the Spectrum Discover namespace in OpenShift can we add the secret "db...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 4 Not under consideration

    TSM backup client fails to restore directories that were "over quota" when the backup was performed

    Novell NSS file system (on a SLES based server) has a feature called "directory quota". It is possible to set such a quota on a directory, such that the quota is lower than the amount of data currently stored within the directory. TSM will backup ...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Improve Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Unix to leverage Oracle BCT for offloaded tape backups

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle supports mounting a FlashCopy target set to a backup server (auxiliary server) and to perform rman incremental level 1 offloads to a Spectrum Protect server from there. In order to identify the changed blocks i...
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    Resourcepool support for TSM VE

    Support in TSM VE for creating schedules based on VMware resource pool. Now this is only possible on host, folder, cluster and datastore.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Improve TSM Replication over high latency WAN links

    I would like a TSM server option that would allow TSM to use as many parallel TCP connections as possible in order to maximize throughput along a Long Fat Pipe (WAN link w/ >60ms latency between TSM servers). Alternatively, I would like the TSM...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

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