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Spectrum Copy Data Management should be able individually rename target filesystems

SCDM can add a prefix, suffix, or replace a string when changing target filesystem names. It would be useful to have a one to one mapping of the source and targets to be renamed as an additional option.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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...
about 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.
about 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.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable a storage system to perform NDMP backups using the CELERRADUMP data format

Please add “DellEMC” to the Vendor-name list that are allowed to use “celerradump” dataformat
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

ESS to support AD integration

ESS does not currently support joining AD in order to perform user authentication. ESS should support AD instead of, or in addition to, local authentication.
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Node Replication available for NDMP storage pools

Is it in the roadmap to include storage pools with format=NETAPPDUMP, CELERRADUMP or NDMPDUMP in Node Replication ?
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support for SEDs with ECE

Support the use of SEDs for storage with ECE, either with locally managed keys, centrally managed keys, or ideally, both
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

dsmc -filelist quotes and control characters

There are constraints that prevents BA client from processing files: they may not contain quotes and apostrophes; thay may not contain control characters either.IBM should come up with escape and quoting rules that could allow BA client to process...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Client backups should not hang if replication is hung

When replication hangs due to a target-server pool problem, client backups hang waiting on filespace locks. Replication locks should time out, or client backups should be able to pre-empt replication locks, so as to prevent large-scale backup fail...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

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