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    FlashCopy Manager VMware In-Guest Support

    VMWare In-Guest Support for FCM. Install, handle and use FCM in virtual machines which are attached to storage subsystems (SVC, ...) with full functionality as on physical machines.
    over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    SVCDTA DB2 cancel restore

    When restore of DB2 is executed, there is no possibility to cancel restore and try with another one, until restore is completed in background.We use NOCOPY option for backup. FMM19183E IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot adapter for the SAN Volume Contr...
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Multiple databases managed by a single instance

    Known Issues and Limitations Specific to the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 Component. If there are multiple databases managed by a single instance, only one of these databases can be protected by IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot.
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Support for Domino Protect for Mail (TDP) for Ubuntu

    Domino is supported on a range of Linux operating-systems. But this requires also backup solutions to be available for those Linux platforms. Domino on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is getting more and more attraction and should be supported b TDP.
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Under review

    Pre-Requisites Check Script

    In order to consider and check all points on the pre-requisite checklist for FCM on Unix, Linux a checking utility would ease the work a lot. Currently, the checklist is very complex and not all of the points are directly clear. Some points refer ...
    about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Autoskip integrity for Exchange DAG backups

    An option like /AUTOSKIPINTEGRITYCHECK would be nice to have in Exchange DAG setups, so that the DP agent/FCM itself could check if the specified database/databases has/have 2 or more healthy copies - if it that would be the cause, it would automa...
    about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

    STA path need to update after drive replacement

    As an example of TS3200 LTO6 drives which we have in our infra whenever we found any drive issue and after replacement of this drive we are getting new serial number and same we are updating on tsm server with below command upd dr libraryname driv...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Functionality already exists

    VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) - SP for VE support

    My customer has deployed a new vCenter on Amazon Web Services, using VMWare on Cloud (VMC) as hypervisor. They are already migrating onpremise production machines to this environment, but even following KB https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/10...
    about 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Improve documentation

    The new IBM Product IBM Spectrum Protect Online Services (SPPOS) have support to backup M365 to a IBM Spectrum Protect S3 Objcet Agent Server. But the problem is that since a few weeks back SPPOS doesn't support self-signed certificate. By defaul...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Future consideration

    LVM mirror support within a single storage system, also without backup server.

    We have a clustered pair of V7000 Gen3's which I would like to use with SPS for DB2 database snapshots. SPS does not currently support either hyperswap volumes, or LVM mirroring of two volumes on the same storage system (copies of which would resi...
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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