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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

SCDM should support daylight savings time

SCDM should support daylight savings time
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Improvement to the upgrading process of MGMT server

The upgrade process is apparently not perfect. I was "kicked" out from the upgrade progress page, before process completed and that can cause confusion? The reason i was kicked out, was that the update components/package was updated ? A suggestion...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under consideration

CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management: integrated data masking is not available with virtual servers

The data masking feature is not supported with virtual servers, only physical servers.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should be able individually rename target filesystems

SCDM can add a prefix, suffix, or replace a string when changing target filesystem names. It would be useful to have a one to one mapping of the source and targets to be renamed as an additional option.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should not require Oracle "recover until snapshot" command when hot backup is not used

During Oracle recoveries SCDM, if hot backup is not used to create the backup, will use the Oracle "recover until snapshot" command which invokes the Oracle Advanced Compression Snapshot Optimization license. This is expensive. Alternatively, ther...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under consideration

Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to disable archive log mode on the target

SCDM should be able to bring up a target database and take it out of archive log mode. Most users do not run test copies of their databases in archive log mode.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should update /etc/fstab

SCDM should automatically update /etc/fstab on linux targets when it mounts replicated filesystems and also remove them when unmounting them. Then filesystems will automatically be mounted if the target system reboots.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under consideration

Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under consideration

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