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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 ...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add monthly projections to the IBM Storage Protect (TSM) sizer tool

    The IBM Storage Protect Sizer tool does not provide monthly projections...only yearly projections. We would like the IBM Storage Protect Sizing tool to be enhanced to also give monthly projections. This is particularly of interest to plan deliver ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Finding WWPNs for spare nodes in SpecVirt products is difficult

    The main management interfaces for the Spectrum Virtualize family makes it difficult (CLI) to impossible (GUI) to find the WWPNs for spare nodes. On the CLI, the sainfo lsservicestatus command can be used to find the WWPNs on spare nodes, but addi...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 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 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    TSM4VE - requirement of Windows proxy for file-level restore in Linux environments

    Setting up a TSM4VE file-level restore for Linux in a Linux only environment requires a Windows based TSM4VE proxy. Customer requested support for a Linux only based TSM4VE proxy instead.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Automate Cache DDM reporting information

    Morgan Stanley is requesting Cache DDM information beyond what we implemented in the TS7700 for the 8.50 release. From the Download System Summary ICON you can retrieve a csv file which contains a summary of the code levels, vtd_execs installed,.....
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Web Client Access for TSM 815

    Provide support for TSM web client connection to 815 TSM for NDMP data restore
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

    Command to release a PENDING volume to SCRATCH

    When a tape library has used all its scratch volumes, the admin needs to make some tapes available to keep operations running. If there are no tapes that can be checked in, a possibility is to free up some already empty volumes in PENDING state. T...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect and ZFS support in Linux x86_64

    We need to backup files in ZFS fs in a system with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 installed using IBM Spectrum Protect BA client.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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