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    Spectrum Protect for ERP should support HANA 2.0 SP08

    We are currently running SP for ERP 8.1.11, which supports SAP HANA 2.0 up to SP7. Our customer (and HANA support) wants to install SAP HANA 2.0 SP8, but we heard this is not supported with SP for ERP SAP HANA 8.1.11. Our SAP colleagues told us, t...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Submitted

    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...
    3 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...
    about 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Under review

    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...
    over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 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...
    4 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    TDP SQL GUI more efficient for search restore point in allwaysOn cluster

    Configuration: AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for database SQL with 11 instances (Active/Inactive) with more than 70 SQL databases with MMC. Problem: When selectively restoring inactive data for a particular database, it takes a long time, up to 45...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 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.
    over 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    SP DP for SQL on windows server 2025

    Having customers already installing server 2025, and are in need of a working DP from SP.
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Future consideration

    TDP for Database SQL

    ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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