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    Restore SVC GUI (7.6/later) to have Volume Overview tab with information as pre-7.6 changes

    Volume Overview Tab – Appears when we right click a volume. Missing in 7.6. Please refer first screenshot in the below email. Unfortunately there is no equivalent to this in 7.6 and later. All the information is available only on different screens...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    NDMP on Library Client

    Need to run NDMP backups on a Library Client.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    SCDM should allow for customization of permissions it sets on Oracle directories, or just leave the permissions alone.

    SCDM changes the existing permissions on the /apps/oracle/admin directory and other files when an instant oracle database restore is performed. SCDM should either put them back exactly the way were before the restore job started, or allow for cust...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    CSM Session Overview List - Sort by Name

    Suggestion when discussing CSM with Jack Henry. Back with TPC-R we were used to having the Session List displayed first by Status, and then sorted by Session name. So, the active sessions are at the top, and the remaining sessions are sorted by na...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Add ability to logically group multiple storage pool as 'Storage Groups'

    Currently, all housekeeping jobs are done on a per storage pool basis. e.g.PARALLELmigrate stg pool1 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool2 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool3 lo=0 wait=yesSERIAL PARALLELreclaim stg pool1 thr=50 wait=yesreclaim stg pool2 thr=5...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    FCM Win: Links to the VSS HW Provider Websites are out of date

    The configuration wizard in the MMC prints a warning if no VSS Hardware Provider is installed. If you click on this Warning, then a list with links to websites appear where it is possible to download the VSS HW Provider. The problem: The links in ...
    about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

    FCM Win: Enhance support in clustered environments

    The current configuration wizard in the MMC for the configuration of MSSQL, Exchange and NTFS volumes does not do any consideration if the application is running in a cluster. - FCM config wizard should configure the attributes: VSSALTSTAGINGDIR a...
    about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    FCM Win: Hint for possible outdated versions of BA and TDP Client

    FCM installs the BA Client and the TDPs under the covers which are packaged within the FCM installation package. These versions can be outdated. The MMC config wizard should print a hint at a certain point in time that the BA and TDP version might...
    about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Use SEEK_HOLE to improve handling of sparse files during backup and restore

    Backing up and restoring Linux sparse files is extremely slow.Is it possible for IBM to modify the software to use the SEEK_HOLE functionality to detect holes quickly? See details at this URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13252682/copying-a-...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    FCM for Oracle on AIX to support multipile Database with same user id running on one server (ORACLE_SID)

    FCM for Oracle on AIx to support backup server which run more than 1 Database with the same userid.To work with ORACLE_SID and not ORACLE_HOME.
    over 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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