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    Add more than 2 site support in SRA/SRM (VMware Site Recovery Manager for SVC

    VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) interacts with SVC SRA (Site Recovery Adapter) for Site-A to Site-B using Metro Mirror. When adding another Metro Mirror relationship Site-A to Site-C (for a complete different purpose on different LUN). The prev...
    almost 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Tooling for updating device login credentials from outside Spectrum Control

    I need a method for programmatic management of the login credentials of devices managed by Spectrum Control. Security best practice requires that the passwords/keys are regularly changed.changing through the GUI for even a moderate number of devic...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

    SPP 10.1.3 Exchange DAG Production Restore: User must put in name of .EDB file

    If you select "Production Restore" you can restore to the original location on the original instance or a alternate location on the original instance. If you are restoring to the original location on the original instance, you do not need to enter...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    IBM Exchange Mailbox recovery tool takes a long time open a small mailbox

    In our SPP training lab we have 5 DAG's separated on 10 Servers. The DAG consists of 2 dedicated Exchange Servers Each.When trying to open a Mail Box using the tool after the SPP granular recovery completes. It can take between 15 to 20 minutes to...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    FlashCopy Manager & GLVM

    In some installed server P systems we manage as outsourcer we need to copy storage data between two different datacenters (source in Italy, target in France; different storage type).The only way to manage copy is GLVMSome of the source systems hav...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale ECE - Need quota feature to support limiting the resource usage on different storage pools

    In more and more projects, we are delivering GPFS file systems with multiple storage pools for teiring. And our customers keep asking for quota limitation of each user/group/fileset on different storage pools, because different pools have differen...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Stronger passwords for TSM

    Expanded character set for TSM passwords to meet industry standard complexity requirements. Most places require a password with the following: * Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long* Contain at least three of the following four categori...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Error message should be reported when backup attempted of whole nameless removable drive in Windows

    Hi, I submitted this as case TS001718427 but was advised to use an RFE instead. It's as follows: We've found that no warning is issued when complete backup is attempted of a removable drive that has no name. If trying to select *files* (or folders...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Be able to specify the order of VM Backups

    We want to be able to specify the order that virtual machines are backed up to fit in with time constraints that specific server present for the backup window
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect should have an oracle agent that replaces RMAN entirely, so proper object metadata can be handled internally, allow proper expeiration, retsets, etc.

    Spectrum Protect has long been plagued by retention problems with Oracle backups. RMAN owns all of the metadata, and keeping this in sync requires sync tools, etc. In large environments, often the DBA team and the Backup team are separated. This l...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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