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New OS & Oracle version support for SPP

VODAFONE TELCO need an Backup SW for those versions:It could be possible to support (three different options needed): 1) RedHat 6.42) RedHat 5.9 (if possible with Python 2.4)3) Oracle 10g They like SPP as Backup SW, but they NEED to support those ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Server in Oracle Cloud

Spectrum Protect Linux Server in Oracle Cloud
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

DS8K's should have authentication policy indicator on logon GUI screen

We have a large number of IBM DS8886's that are in various stages of connection to the systems. It can be very difficult to tell if we need to use our standard LDAP logon or our basic logon for any specific box. This can sometimes result in us bei...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Parameterization of the port (2443 default) used by the Spectrum Control for the configuration of Hitachi storages

I have to integrate a hitachi VSP G700 and G900 storage in Spectrum Control, but I have a problem because the default port 2443 of the hitachi Command Suite when the client installed it changed to 443 and 2443 port is not available. The request is...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

TDP VMware INSTANT VM Rostore of ESX with EMC Multipathing

The current setup of the TDP Vmware IBM Spectrum Protect V 8.1.2.0 ,Instant restore works for iscsi goes through the NMP, but the original datastore is using EMC powerpath, which is no-native multipathing, We need the enhancement for the IBM Spect...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SRA agent should support "status" for HBAs

Right now the SRA (Storage Resource Agent) does not support a status for SAN HBAs.It should display a useful status for every HBA - preferably even every port on the HBA.Possible states: Online/Offline/Link-Up/Link-Down, etc.This should exist for ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Multiples Users logged in simultaneously

When a Library TS4300 is logically partitioned in several logical libraries every admin or operator need to do some administratives jobs on their own Logical Library, on the actual restriction to do simultaneos login , its not possible for all of ...
about 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Not under consideration

FCM: ZFS Support for Solaris

THE main volume manager for clustered systems is zfs. Without this support FCM for Solaris only can be used in a very small amounts of Solaris systems.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

vdisk mirror is out of sync

When a vdisk mirror is out of sync, the CLI currently does not exhibit a field to display precisely which copy of the vdisk mirror is in use. The active copy is implied when the copy is sync=true and primary=yes or when the sync=no and primary=no....
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Include NAS Backups statistics in the data collection of Monitoring and Reporting.

Currently, the results from NAS Backups (NDMP) stored in the summary table is not collected in the WAREHOUS database. As such, it's also not possible to produce any custom reports on NAS Backups. Collecting the rows from the summary table where ac...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

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