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Product functionality

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 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Future consideration

Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Planned for future release

Limit SP client install to supported OS

According to SP client release notes page:https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052226The client is OS requirement is AIX 7.1 or 7.2, however the installation proceeds without any error on AIX 6.1 / VIO 2.2.xStarting the scheduler ju...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Manager needs to support Metro Mirror or Metro Mirror with Consistency volumes

CDM needs to support Metro Mirror in addition to global mirror change volumes. This would decrease the need for additional space on the primary storage.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Future consideration

Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Future consideration

send encrypted backups through tdpve iffull/ifincr method

send tdpve client backups with method iffull and ifincr encrypted to server as it was with methods full and incr before
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

Need support of Power 9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Server and Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Oracle settings after a restore

When running a Spectrum CDM restore job that will mount an Oracle instance from a snapshot on a host, automatic Oracle setting coming from Spectrum CDM does not enable to restart automatically Oracle instance if the host is rebooted after the rest...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: enchance GUI ergonomy

Client noticed that when defining a schedule for a Spectrum CDM job, there are no “Save” or “OK” buttons on the schedule configuration window (see document attached) and it is required to click outside the Window to save changes. This is considere...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under 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...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Future consideration

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