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    postgreSQL Support

    PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases. We see this requirement in RFIs.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Support for vCloud Director

    We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

    Inclusion of a REST API to interface with the TS7700 MI

    Add a REST API to the TS7700 MI to gather operational and performance statistics.
    about 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Change nodenames for SP for Hyper-V during installation

    Please make it possible to be able to change nodenames for the Hyper-V nodes when installing Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus - Support of Oracle Database on Windows Server

    Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Windows servers.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    include a record in SPserver SUMMARY_EXTENDED for missed scheduled ( successful=no )

    We need a single table to compute SLA , summary_extended seems to be the one to use. But we realized missed schedules are not included . they are in the events table.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 - Monitoring I/O processes

    We have in our production environment a GPFS cluster, version 4.2.3, used by the SAS system in version 9.4 M3The cluster consists of 11 servers, with Linux operating system RedHat 6.7 and 7.3, being 5 physical and 06 virtual.It has a dedicated dec...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    tsmdlst for direct attached SCSI libraries/drives

    Since ISP 8.1.1 the tsmdlst tool in only supporting HBA / SAN attached libraries and tape drives.Find explanation here:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1&uid=swg1IT22703We are using several direct attached libraries and are pl...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Introduce Data mobility - Ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another

    Introduce Data mobility i.e. the ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another.This is so data can be easily managed and vSnap servers retired and added in an easier fashion
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups

    Customers want the ability to migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups. This is due to when customers want to split VMs up already in existing SLAs currently this needs a full backup to be re-run and therefore more space needed in...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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