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[Copy] Support TDP for MSSQl running on Linux

MS is now supporting MS-SQL running on Linux. It would be nice to do a backup of that too.
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases Planned for future release

Setting Library Maintenance Mode by LI REQ for a planned TS7700 Maintenance causes z/OS messages "forced internal pause"

Setting maintenance mode during planned maintenance on a TS7700 triggers an alert to our customers' IT operations via the z/OS message "internal forced mode," as this message is typically displayed in the event of an actual outage. Therefore, manu...
27 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

DS8900 ability to run advanced call home for SI on HMC

Customer is retiring older windows VM machines that run the SI data collector. They would like the ability to have advanced call home for SI on these systems so that they don't have to standup dedicated systems just to run a data collector for sys...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

Storage Protect server and storage agent should be supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4

We need to update all our AIX hosts to AIX 7.3 TL4 in near future. Because of this, we require that the Storage Protect server and storage agent are supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Planned for future release

Please add VMWare cloud Foundation 9 to the supported hypervisors.

We have customers that still use Storage protect for virtual environments and Broadcom forces them to change to VMWare Cloud Foundation in the near future and if Storage Protect does not support this they have to switch the an other backup tool.
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

Update the default settings for DCOPYT, TIMEOUT, PFRLOCO and DELEXP

With the new TS7700 3948, we are using the new 10GB Grid links. When there is an network issue, the first thing support states is to update the default settings for DCOPYT and TIMEOUT values from manufacturing.
2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Password Length in TS7700

I would like to propose an idea to increase the length of the password for the TS7700 user profiles to more than 25 characters as it would help us to keep the security to a maximum. Also, we would like to include the special characters in the pass...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

Support Cohesity Data Protect as a backup source in DRS

DRS currently support Defender Data Protect as a backup source in DRS and it should also support Cohesity Data Protect to broaden the scope of the solution.
3 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) Planned for future release

Files with only ctime changes treated as unchanged by Storage Protect, creating a mismatch in mmbackup’s summary. Adding the unchanged count into Storage Protect and mmbackup’s comparison prevent “skipped files” messages.

mmbackup builds its candidates files if there is just change in ctime. However, some files may have a modified ctime even when no metadata or data changes have actually occurred.For such files, if the IBM Storage Protect server already has the lat...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Planned for future release

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