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    Options for SPS Offload

    The tape_backup function creates a "db2 backup database" command for the offload of a FlashCopy image to TSM. This works fine but I am not able to add any backup options to this command. It is assembled by SPS. But it would be very useful to add o...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Submitted

    Allow longer volume names - use shorter mapping names - in storage protect snapshot

    Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controller production source vol...
    almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Under review

    Operation Center must have the capability to fully administrate and configure a Spectrum Protect Server

    The Spectrum Protect Operations Center has developed into a very useful tool. Due to its clear structure and well thought-out functions, it is becoming increasingly popular, especially with new Spectrum Protect customers. To complete the picture o...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    CLONE_DATABASE_MEMORY (Db2) should be configurable PER TARGET

    If you have a machine with multiple FCM clones of DB2 databases, they may have very different sizes and sizing requirements, in particular when the original (source) system has way more memory than the destination (clone target) system. Option CLO...
    3 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

    As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

    Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

    Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 5 Not under consideration

    Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

    Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot should recognize AIX LVM mirror setup after restore

    The customer operates multiple IBM Db2 databases on the AIX platform using LVM mirrored volumes.For performance reasons, specific LV to hdisk mappings are configured inside of the volume groups.Snapshot backups are created by IBM Spectrum Protect ...
    over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum CDM Deployment on MS Hyper-V Virtualization

    We're working with LULU for their SAP HANA requirement and proposing Spectrum CDM to fulfill their App/DB consistent snapshots for the mentioned retention period here Every 2 hours snapshot for Prod Infra with 7 days retention (12x7= 82 flashcopie...
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

    Allow editable threshold settings and client and/or type of client exceptions for security notifications

    Please make the thresholds for Operations Center Security notifications an editable setting. We have hundreds of security notifications daily that are not being reviewed since we can't manage them. Also many are API clients, which would typically ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

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