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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Copy Data Management should not require Oracle "recover until snapshot" command when hot backup is not used

During Oracle recoveries SCDM, if hot backup is not used to create the backup, will use the Oracle "recover until snapshot" command which invokes the Oracle Advanced Compression Snapshot Optimization license. This is expensive. Alternatively, ther...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to disable archive log mode on the target

SCDM should be able to bring up a target database and take it out of archive log mode. Most users do not run test copies of their databases in archive log mode.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should update /etc/fstab

SCDM should automatically update /etc/fstab on linux targets when it mounts replicated filesystems and also remove them when unmounting them. Then filesystems will automatically be mounted if the target system reboots.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Full Active Directory Intergration

Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Mailbox Restore Browser functionality for Exchange 2016

I would like the Mailbox Restore Browser functionality added for Exchange 2016
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Have the ability to choose the backup node in oracle

Spectrum protect plus does not currently have the ability to choose the preferred node for backups in the case of oracles like in the exchange for example, and we have this in question for some customers, who do not want to change in oracle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Possibility to use the "dedup_device" with TSM for ERP (DB2) Product

Customer backup its DB2 database with Sp. Protect (ex TSM) ; backup storage is ProtecTIER (IBM Open deduplication solution). In order to boost both backup / restaure performances and deduplication ratio the 'dedup_device' option has been be set up...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Backup of VMs using 'View: Datastore' but it does not allow VM exclusion

Customer sets VMWare backup jobs to use View: Datastore He cannot exclude individual VMs from a datastore view (you cannot click on the datastore and browse to exclude VMs). He would have to assign the datastore to the SLA then go to View: VM and ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Web Client Access for TSM 815

Provide support for TSM web client connection to 815 TSM for NDMP data restore
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

TSM repository server is not supported as catalog backup target for SPP+ (enable catalog backup to repository server)

Using the SPP+ gui you can select a TSM repository server as a target for catalog backup for SPP+. I have opened a call with IBM support (TS013178083) because at 10.1.14-217 release at least of SPP+ no matter how you configure the TSM S3 repositor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration