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Mailbox restore wizard

The procedure of restoring item level requires me to install TDP for Exchange on one of the DAG nodes and start the mailbox restore wizard. Unfortunately you HAVE to install TDP for Exchange on the DAG node.In our days customers wants to remove an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

New OS & Oracle version support for SPP

VODAFONE TELCO need an Backup SW for those versions:It could be possible to support (three different options needed): 1) RedHat 6.42) RedHat 5.9 (if possible with Python 2.4)3) Oracle 10g They like SPP as Backup SW, but they NEED to support those ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Server in Oracle Cloud

Spectrum Protect Linux Server in Oracle Cloud
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

DS8K's should have authentication policy indicator on logon GUI screen

We have a large number of IBM DS8886's that are in various stages of connection to the systems. It can be very difficult to tell if we need to use our standard LDAP logon or our basic logon for any specific box. This can sometimes result in us bei...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Replication: enable TCP Window Scaling

Based on information in the PMR and simulations it appears that the replication is using a fixed TCP Window size. Please consider enabling TCP Window Scaling to allow bigger transfers speeds.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TDP VMware INSTANT VM Rostore of ESX with EMC Multipathing

The current setup of the TDP Vmware IBM Spectrum Protect V 8.1.2.0 ,Instant restore works for iscsi goes through the NMP, but the original datastore is using EMC powerpath, which is no-native multipathing, We need the enhancement for the IBM Spect...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Rebinding Archives between management classes

We have two managment classes for archiving data; one mgmt class expires archives after twelve months (temp mgmt class) and the other does not expire archives( never expires). We have a requirement to set some of the archives under temporary mgmt ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Individual File Restore Security (SSH)

Individual File Restore under Linux currently requires a passwordless ssh access from any client which wants to use individual file restoreto a Windows machine as user Administrator. This rises multiple implications: Security: You can log in to th...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

vdisk mirror is out of sync

When a vdisk mirror is out of sync, the CLI currently does not exhibit a field to display precisely which copy of the vdisk mirror is in use. The active copy is implied when the copy is sync=true and primary=yes or when the sync=no and primary=no....
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Show SCSI ID (LUN) in View Volume by Host

In the "Volumes by Host" View is a column missing to show the SCSI ID or LUN Number which is assigned to the vdisk by the specific host.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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