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    include all TSM client products in autodeploy

    Include all the TSM client products (TDP, etc.) in the functionality of autodeploy.
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Copy Data Management: integrated data masking is not available with virtual servers

    The data masking feature is not supported with virtual servers, only physical servers.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    GPFS needs better contol over NSD IOs for mixed devices SSD + SATA

    For a cluster that has a mix of SSD and SATA drives for different storage pools the current architecture queues IO to small (64K) and large queues. For the cluster I was examining we saw SSD IOs being blocked by slow SATA IOs on the NSD server for...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

    By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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

    Restore Point in time to an alternate location or to the original SQL Server with a different name

    Customer needs the functionality to restore a SQL database which was backed up using ISP4VE to an alternate location and to to a log roll forward until a specified point in time.Also the restore with a different SQL database name is required.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Use different option and configuration files in FlashCopyManager for TDP SQL

    Since the TDP for SQL GUI has been deprecated and replaced by FlashCopyManager as a GUI, we are unable to select which "dsm.opt" and "tdpsql.cfg" files will be used to perform backups and restores i.e. we are forced to use the default ones: * "c:\...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

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