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z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

After a HyperSwap, the command "Start H2->H1" (Start H1->H2 respectively) will fail if there a active Concurrent Copy Sessions on secondaries (former primaries). CSM will show error IWNR2108E RC 0F13. We know IBM recommends to eliminate any ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Oracle dataguard support

We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Request for managing Copy functions in the DS GUI

We have several customers Open / IBMi / zOS who use mirrored DS8000 and who currently use the Old GUI for management of the Mirroring and FlashCopy.CSM is economically not an option for them.
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Manually select a specific snapshot and offload for long-term retention

Manually select a specific backup/snapshot and offload it for long-term retention.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Oracle Agentless Cold Backups

IBM Spectrum Protect PlusOracle Agentless COLD Backups Current versions of IBM SPP only support Hot backups. Our customer has all they Development environment with Oracle in non Archive log mode. Causing SPP not a viable option to implement backups.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support reversal of roles of replication servers which have Retention Sets

If you have retention sets on either a source or target replication server, you cannot reverse the roles of the replication servers; that is, you cannot make the source server the target server and vice versa. If you do so, data in retention sets ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

installation image for physical vSnap servers

IBM provides vsnap server OVAs für virtualized vsnap servers.In some customer situations it would be helpful to have also a fully supported installation image for physical vsnap servers including update images.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Support nested groups from Active Directory

Currently SPP does not supported nested Active Directory groups.Only direct group members are able to login. With a "nested" group member - so a member of a group under the added group doesn't work.Here's what I mean: Group 1 (added to SPP) <- ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration