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    Utilize FlashCopy Manager to do ad-hoc clones from the backup target volumes to eliminate impact on production systems

    Customers are asking for the ability to clone their database applications (Oracle, ERP, etc..) and not impact the production system on an ad-hoc basis. They want to be able to 'clone on demand' during the day and the existing process causes a shor...
    almost 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    Bypass VSS_E_MAXIMUM_NUMBERS_OF_VOLUMES_REACHED limitation on

    We need a new feature to bypass the VSS Limit of 64 Volumes during the Backups.
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

    Streamline total indexed objects count

    Since the introduction of the Spectrum Protect feature, Spectrum Discover does no longer report the total number of indexed objects. We see the total number of objects that are non-Spectrum Protect specific in the respective tab and we see the tot...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    TwoFactorAuthentication for OC

    We would like to use two factor authentication with smart cards to log in to our Operations Center in order to enhance security
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    FCM support for PowerLinux.

    Currently Flashcopy Manager is only support on Linux x86_64 platforms.We would like to see support for PowerLinux setups.
    almost 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for SMI-S CIM Agent for 3rd party SRM monitoring support

    Require an SMI-S CIM Agent to be developed for SCALE / ESS to allow 3rd party SRM tool discovery and support (NetApp OnCommand, SolarWinds....etc) for capacity and performance monitoring. It is understood that Spectrum Control can be used with the...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Need approved process to create new secondary for protocol cluster AFM-based DR

    With AFM-based DR, I am familiar with the process for creating a new secondary when the original secondary is lost (mmafmctl <filesystem> changeSecondary). What is the process for creating a new secondary when mmcesdr is being used to manage...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM should support NDMP backup with VTL libtype

    TSM Server should support NDMP backups with libtype VTL. It's documented that generally backups are faster when using a VTL and libtype is set to VTL instead of SCSI. Due to the limitation of TSM libtype VTL cannot be used as NDMP backups are not ...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    Changing Retention between Source and Target Replicated Nodes

    We need the ability to have different retentions between on the source and target for each replicated node. That way we can store active data for the short term on the source and change the replicated node to long term retention.
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Deletion of TDPSQL Legacy Backups

    The ability to delete a specific Legacy backup at least through the CLI
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

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