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Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Manual Installation SPP Plus Client

File System Inventory Failing to complete over the WAN. According to support this could due the low network bandwidth between the SPP Server and the remote client. I ask a procedure to manually install the client on the remote server and Support a...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Free unused dynamic heap memory

The GPFS memory footprint is defined by- pagepool- shared memory pool- heap- stack of all threads (512KB per GPFS thread, usually the stack size is not an issue) "pagepool" and "shared memory pool" are configurable, but no parameter in GPFS to con...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Make synchronizing passwords easier on data collectors

Change the way updating passwords for the data collectors works. Basically by adding a item under the block devices/connection tab to stop using the userid/password while you are resetting the data collector userid/password on your disk array. We ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Allow DRAID6 to be configured with 2 rebuild areas when using FCMs

A customer is requesting that we allow them to create a DRAID 6 array with 2 rebuild areas when using FCMs . Or allow him the option to have a "hot spare"disk that could jump into the array.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

NDMP backups to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is no way to get NDMP into the cloud. Also, NDMP TOC data cannot be replicated at all. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which wa...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Spectrum protect : restrict possible actions of a backup administrator on source data(prevent erasure)

As the data privacy and security become a priority for our client, we need to improve Spectrum Protect product to enhance data privacy and security. The aim of this RFE is to find a way so that a backup administrator (responsible of managing backe...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 SSL cetficate for AWS

My client would like to use a certifcate for the SSL connection to AWS S3 buckets.
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Needs more information

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