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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

Archive log utilization query

TSM 6.1 and up have no way to show the archive log utilization in the admin client. This seems to be an oversight. The query log command should be able to display this info. It should also be available via a select statement. The only way to get t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Better handling of fragments during backup storagepool

When copying data to a copy pool, all (or large parts of) the copied data can be rolled back, if some - but not all - fragments of a super-aggregate is among the copied data. This can happen if the backup storagepool process is deliberately stoppe...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add hyperlinks from status icons on SPP Dashboard

When accessing the Dashboard the customer would like to have the summary sections at the top of the screen as hyperlinks.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add JCL to IWNALLOC for SAMPLIB & ASAMPLIB

Please add JCL in the IWNALLOC.JCL file to include SAMPLIB and ASAMPLIB.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SI Reports filters not flexible

The reporting utility in SI is very good, but additional flexibility in the filter section is desirable.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Define VMWare backup order

I need a way to define the vm backup order within a DOMAIN.VMFULL list
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

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

If the CLI option /configfile points to non existent file the tdpsqlc command should end in error..

If we have in a sqlfull.bat script: tdpsqlc backup * full /configfile=someconfig.cfg and the file "someconfig.cfg" does not exist, the command runs along with default config and returns with rc=0. Problem with that is if "somconfig.cfg" once exist...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Is a defect

CSM for z/OS - Active/Standby on different storage systems

We installed the standby CSM server on remote site on a different sysplex with different storage systems. All storage connections from the active CSM were synchronized to the standby CSM server. But the standby CSM server has no access to the stor...
about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration