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add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

move or migrate cloud container

There's no way or support to move or migrate the content of a cloud container.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SP / SPP integrated with CyberArk

Many customers are using cyberark to protect the access to the systems. it is a requirement from a large couple of customers.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Oracle ACFS Support for Copy Data Management

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is evaluating CDM v2.2.9 for Oracle. SQL has passed the eval. Oracle is running ACFS as the standard at NFCU. Looking for CDM support for ACFS
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Log backup of SQL system databases

Log backup of SQL system databases should be supported in Spectrum Protect Plus
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

backup hyper-v 2012 the backup is work but we have error 12

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 i want to backup only two vritual machines with linux...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data management duplicate job option

Customer would like the ability in the jobs tab.The ability to right click a job and to duplicate.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect/TSM NDMP Support for Fujitsu ETERNUS AX/HX series

We would like to see the ETERNUS AX/HX series added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using Spectrum Protect/TSM and NDMP. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/storage/all-flash-arrays/ax.htmlhttps://ww...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

this applies to Spectrum CDM: Show Jobs IDs and SLA Policies IDs in CDM GUI

Client remark: When a user defines in Spectrum CDM GUI a new backup or restore job, and also when a user defines a new "SLA Policy", a unique ID is assigned to the job and a unique ID is assigned to the SLA Policy. Both IDs are used @ storage subs...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Managment: SAP HANA (system) connectivity should support SSH keys

As of today SCDM needs "user/password" credentials for its SAP HANA (system) connectivity. As this a security risk (and not allowed at our company anymore) the product should support SSH keys as system credentials. Since SCDM already has this for ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration