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Add option to not suspend oracle database during flashcopy

Would like the option to only place tables in backup mode and not suspend the database when working with Oracle RAC + ASM source.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

V7000 Gen1 PCIe bus issue causing Node aserts

When the node asserts due to a PCIe issue the node is taken offline. This impacts performance and redundancy. An IBM CE is required to reseat the node to bring it back online.
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

Better Support for Windows Server Failover Clusters with Asymmetric Storage

Support for asymmetric storage configurations with Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) was added to Windows Server 2008 with hotfix KB976097 and is available with RTM versions of Windows Server 2012, 2012R2 and 2016. SQL Server 2014 AlwaysON a...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TDPOCONF - provide option for password command

Provide an option for tdpoconf password command to specify current and new password like:tdpoconf password -tdpo_optfile=<tdpo_optfile.opt> -currentpw=<currentpw> -newpw=<newpw>
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Monitoring/Reporting 7.1.3 IE11 support

Spectrum Protect (TSM) Monitoring/Reporting 7.1.3 requires IE8 or IE9 browsers. Microsoft, and my employer, are now supporting only IE11/Edge. The request is to update the software to provide a modern browser support point.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Modification of behavior of Flashcopy status change

We are using Flashcopy for DB2 under AIX and we perform tape backup from time to time. If you have the status backup_pending for the latest flasdhcopy and if the next flashcopy fails because of any reason then you do not have any flashcopy that co...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 Export Copy needs an independent format for code

TS7700 Export Copy needs an independent format for code.Customer has requested the TS7700 Export/Copy function/ software have backward compatible with previous code releases to help them during times of TS7700 code updates.
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 pSeries PCI bus error recovery

The customer suffered an incident with the I/O drawer as reported in PMH 49532,200,838 To solve the issue they had to reboot the TS7700. Apparently this a know issue, but IBM is not planning at present to solve this issue. It is a problem with the...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Is a defect

Multi Target XRC (RMZ)

Customer would like the ability of a volume to be a source to two XRC sessions concurrently.
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Metro Mirror Target as a XRC (RMZ) Source on DS8000

Customer would like the ability to have a Metro Mirror target volume be a source to an XRC (RMZ) session.
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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