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Rocket Adapter for XtremIO

COTY is looking to use FCM for ERP on XtremIO. They need a rocket adapter built.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Restore or server migration: delete inactive files on destination file system

We have "dsmc rest Image c: -incre -deletefiles" (image + last incremental - deletion of the inactive marked files at the TSM server) to be able to restore the last status of a file system. Can we have "dsmc rest \\OldServer\Oldshare\*.* \\NewServ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Update to TSMJBB daemon

We have been having AIX lpars with busy filesystems, 'lock up' with the tsmjbbd daemon running. It would be better if the tsmjbbd could issue some sort of warning instead of locking up the server. The PMR that caused this request was 82029.082.000...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Support for SQL Server Express Edition

Please support SQL Server Express Edition. Technically, this should be no different than Standard Edition.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

q event * * historical=yes

q event * * is very slow, because it build up future events too. I spoke to Colin Dawson at TSM Symposium 2015, and making a command like q event for historical events olny should be quite simple to include as an option.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SQL Log backup to report which DBs are excluded

When doing a MS-SQL log backup, DBs in simple mode are excluded from processing (which is good). However, it would be nice to get a list of which DBs are excluded in the report not only the # of excludes in order to be able to alert the DBAs of this.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Vmware : TSM for VE Oracle VSS Support

Oracle under Windows provides the possibility to run VSS Backup of Oracle. I have found several RFPs where Customes are requesting this feature. I think we should give support to this type of backup.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Mail for MS Exchange documentation needs a summary of communication paths/ports/credentials for VSS based backups

The setup and interaction between components in performing a VSS based Exchange backup is very complex, involving windows and Exchange credentials, TSM server node and Admin ID credentials, proxy authority, BA client services configuration, and bi...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Packet data curruption between Tivoli client API and Tivoli server.

Customer is using external network between client machine and Tivoli storage server. These is data corruption between Tivoli client API (dsmSendData) and Tivoli server and client API is not indicating any data corruption. Due to this database reco...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

FCM for vmware support Hyper-scale mobility with XIV

Hyper-sacle mobility function of XIV is the important function in the very large vmware environment as used many multiple XIVs.Flashcopy Manager for VMware is strong solution in case of large vmware environment, but FCM does not support Hyper-scal...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

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