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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

    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...
    2 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    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

    Storage Protect Snapshot sould support IBM FlashSystem MuliSite Hyperswap (MSHA / PBHA)

    In Sep 2023 with Storage Virtualize Version 8.6.1 new functions was release for FlashSystem/SVC called MuliSite Hyperswap, also named as Policy-based High Availability. We need SPS to support this.
    about 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    I would like VGS to be added to SPS

    Goodday As part of our Oracle in a SAP environment landscape we do bi-weekly refreshes of PROD onto a QA system. We also get ad-hoc requests for other clones as well as clones for Projects that means we need to keep a snapshot around for 6-12 mont...
    over 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

    One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

    TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

    TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic archive log inactivation by Spectrum Protect Snapshot for SQL

    Full backups made by Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) for SQL, through VSS, do not inactivate the previous archived logs, causing them to accumulate on the Spectrum Protect Server. The inactivation process is done manually through the command line,...
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

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