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Spectrum Protect PLUS support Oracle 10g

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support Oracle 10g over RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

When COS has storage pool/access pool communication issue, Event console in Manager GUI might need to keep the record for problematic device name.

When COS has storage pool/access pool communication issue, Manager GUI guide to 'Communication Issues' page, but once the issue is resolved/cleared, we can't know which device had the communication issue. If Event console includes the information ...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Add virtualmountpoint support for Spectrum Protect for Space Management on Spectrum Scale servers

Please allow Spectrum Protect for Space Management in a Spectrum Scale environment to operate on virtualmountpoints. This means support in the following scenario: 1) A large Spectrum Scale file system is split into multiple smaller filesets. 2) Ea...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Need to track configuration changes to avoid accidental or malicious changes on the configuration

In Spectrum Protect is no mechanism implemented to avoid accidental or malicious changes of configuration when logged into the adminstration client as an administrator. To achieve a higher protection for this case scenario we would need a mechanis...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot support multiple DB2 databases within a single instance

FEPOC owns Flashcopy Manager for DB2 and has performed a Proof of Concept (POC) and identified changes required to the current DB2 environment in order to implement flashcopy. A problem was identified in the POC based on CCTI's unique architecture...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

add sort options to mmbackup

mmapplypolicy knows some command line options to control the sorting, namely [--max-sort-bytes MaxBytes] [--other-sort-options SortOptions] [--sort-buffer-size Size] [--sort-command SortCommand] Unfortunately mmbackup does not offer any of these. ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Disk Drives/Hardware Components - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Functionality already exists

Production restore folder

"Restore in production mode if Vcenter is down" option works but this restore creates a directory in the datastore with the name of VM. If the VM folder is not identical to VM name, the production restore doesn't maitain the original name.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership

IBM Spectrum Protect Server v8.1.9.300:Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership Currently, the replicate node command works on node names, lists of node names, wildcards of node names, node groups, or lists of node groups. We wish...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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