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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

    Add FIPS compliance to the tape library to enable Key Manager integration with the IBM Guardium product.

    Guardium uses FIPS by default. Without FIPS compliance the Diamondback library acts as a lowest common denominator for Guardium forcibly weakening the security stance of all products using the same Guardium instance e.g. Spectrum Scale. A minimum ...
    4 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Under review

    Enable the capability of having minimum 2 or more versions of LTO Drives & Media in the one Diamondback Tape library.

    At the initial launch, the DiamondBack Tape Library was designed to have one Drive Type - LTO9 - as LTO8 was neither certified nor tested. However, expectation is to maintain a tape library for a dozen years or more - this ticks the sustainability...
    3 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    a software reset of the library should not invalidate the status of the tapes in the IOstation

    While after a powercycle of the library or opening the backdoor and removing and reinserting the IOstation, it is correct to rescan the IO station and consider all tapes to be imported, this should not be the case, when the library is instructed t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 4 Is a defect

    Missing informational event for rear door open status

    While rear door open, inventory option for service magazine scan is not available. From customer point library functionality is limited, an informational event will help and provide correct hint. Within REST Get frame, we cover rear door status. A...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    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

    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

    Allowing for hybrid connections in the same Diamondback (SAS/FC)

    Allow for customer to order a Diamondback with a hybrid of SAS and fiber channel drives. Allowing a single Diamondback to support different type of workloads/connections vs requiring two Diamondbacks to achieve this.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    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

    ISP DP for SQL Powershell in AlwaysON Environment / restore Script

    This Script (Command Line Interface) allows us to do faster restore compare to the Graphical User Interface. MMC GUI has long wait time when restore inactive backup's as described in the case (TS004928519). In a case of ransomware we can't accept ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

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