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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2011

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Improve TSM DB protection

Currently TSM Server v6 supports the following recovery targets: 1) PIT of the TSM DB backup; 2) most recent PIT. This RFE is opened to request an enhancement to improve TSM DB recoverability by leveraging existing native DB2 functionality to allow the recovery from an online DB2 database backup followed by a rollforward to any desired PIT using the archived transcation logs. This request calls for the following changes: 1) Ensure that TSM Server transaction logs stored on a secure external media for a desired/configurable time (use of the local archive log file system is not secure); 2) Allow the rollforward to custom PIT following the TSM DB backup restore

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 12, 2014

    This is still being considered for a release in the next year or two. This is not a statement of commitment as IBM plans are subject to change. We will provide an update should those plans change or the support is delivered.

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Hello, we faced in 03308,130,702 this problem. Benjamin Schockert explanation: In principle we need a hidden option for the dsmserv restoredb command which restore the DB backup image without rolling forward the logs. The logs can then be applied ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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