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TDP for MSSQL 6.4 Turnoff VSS completely at FCM console

Please add possiblity for switching of all VSS functionallity at MMC console at FlashCopyManager of TDP for MSSQL 6.4 completely.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Customizing FCM TDP MSSQL Configuration files

Please include possibility for customzing locations of TDP for MSSQL configuration files (.cfg + .opt) at MMC console of FileCopyManager. For example as on TSM Baclient with environment variables.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

TDP for MSSQL 6.4 Turnoff VSS completely at FCM console

Please add possiblity for switching of all VSS functionallity at MMC console at FlashCopyManager of TDP for MSSQL 6.4 completely.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Customize e-mail alerts on SVC for only desired data

Problem: Customer would like to customize ALERTS messages sent from SVC clusters, to contacts specified in support User tab. WHY? Customer is using centralized alert notification, which get email notification from SVC and send it to mobile phone v...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SNAPDIFF with QTREE Support

NDMP backup does not support qtree data structure. I have two customer who has about 20TB today and will grow to 40TB and would like to utilize this function.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Incremental forever for Databases

Would like to see if it is possible to have incremental forever capability with the SQL and Oracle TDP. Hard to pitch the idea of TSM being an incremenal forever solution , exept for Database scenarios.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

IBM AIX SAS HBA support with HP branded LTO Tape drives.

We tried qualifying HP LTO5 & 6 SAS drives in our labs with AIX 6.1 & 7.1, but the OS would hang when we tried to discover them. No issue getting it to work with HP LTO FC drives, but fails wtih SAS drives using the IBM AIX SAS HBA.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli FCM individual mail box restore problem

restore the mail box with it's locale rather then change the locale setting of the exchange server everytime.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

No Warning Message in Actlog when TSM Storage Agent reaches max sessions limit

If a Storage Agent reaches his MaxSessions Limit, a ANRXXXW should appear in activity-log.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Remounting a DB2 snaphshot after complete offload

The possibility to remount a DB2 snapshot on the backup server after the offload to TSM has been done. And the possibility to take a second offload backup from a snapshot.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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