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GUI for TDP ORACLE backup and restore

have a GUI for ORACLE TDP RMAN backups.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE vmcli

I want to run a TSM for VE vmcli backup using an external scheduler (ControlM) so I can chain backups, dedupe's, reclaims, node replications, etc together.The backup command pretty much forces me to use the -I and specify a file with vmname: in it...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Support Metro Mirror (or better all Copy Services) for LUNs up to 16 TiB

Currently DS8880 officially supports Copy Services (Flashcopy and PPRC) for volumes up to 2 TiB.IBM can support volumes up to 4TiB replicated by Copy Services submitting a SCORE RPQ.But today big LUN's in Open environments, particularly in virtual...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

randam/sequential performance stats in SVC performance data

randam/sequential performance stats in SVC performance data
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Make it possible to set Read permission for the secondary volume of the Metro Mirror in CKD format and enable permission of b

MUFG Bank, previously it was BTMU, is planning to improve fault tolerance in the zLinux DB environment, and for that reason Mirroring Contoroller which is the function of Fujitsu DB Symfoware Server plans to cope with server failure as well as sto...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

vDisk Protection in a DTA Snapshot environment

With vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, two parameters are provided in SVC and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion of a disc. Unfortunately, this function is unusable if additional products dynamically create and delete vDisk....
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM does not allow versioning of file-attributes only

TSM does not offer any possibility to do a backup with version control for only(!) the standard UNIX-file-permissions. In fact, TSM does not allow to backup the file-perms only, with or without versioning.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment support availability for vSphere 6.7

When wil be available support for vsèphere vcenter 6.7 ? vCenter plugin is not working on version 6.7
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of filespace for Hyper-V backups

When you backup a Hyper-V VM using the "backup vm" command, the files representing the VM are stored in their own filespace. This effectively excludes them from expiration on deletion, as filespace aren't subject to expiration. When a VM is delete...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add tdp client for MSSQL on linux

TDP for MSSQL needed on Linux systems
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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