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Need Plus to "recognize" cloned Oracle Database, keep it on the SLA to continue backups, possibly with tagging, or backup of all databases from a host with the option to exclude.

Regular cloning for Oracle Databases for patching process, which also moves the binaries, but maintains the inventory. Patched clone is then set as the production database. Need Plus to recognize the new Oracle as the production, keep it with the ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Have the ability do define a cut-off date and time for scheduled operation

Have the ability do define a cut-off date and time for scheduled operation expecially when it is expected to run at a predefined date/time. If for any reason the CSM server is stopped when a timer for a scheduled action expires, the action will be...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Future consideration

IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future 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 4 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 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Snooze alert in Storage Insights

As a SI user admin , I want to be able to Snooze a notification so that I can prioritize the work to be done
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Changes for ISP Server/Client

Will there be an Systemd-Daemon file one day for better controlling of the system processes of the ISP software?Because the ISP server and client software haven't yet an native systemd-daemon and are using still the old SysV-Init-Daemon files whic...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Pool level mirroring - Protected Pools

The ability to mirror at the pool layer by creating a pool as a mirror pool to an existing pool (protection pool). Any volume that lands into the PRIMARY pool is automatically mirrored to the secondary protection pool. Removing the volume from the...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Enhancements on Spectrum Scale Installation toolkit to support remote cluster configurations and updates

Currently there are a gap in this toolkit to define remote cluster configs. We know that the code are already available in the open source stuff but not in the offical release of the installer. It should be added to simplify the current manually s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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