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cli commands restricted to superuser account

certain cli commands require specific userid to execute. For example, to execute the svcconfig backup command you need to login as superuser from a support team perspective, the whole team supporting an SVC / V7000 would have to have access to the...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TSM Linux Client for Red Hat 7

This is a request to get the TSM linux client working and supported on Red Hat 7.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Make GPFS more atomic

At present you cannot delete, create snapshots or filesets if a migration is occurring.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Delivered

Account Security Features added to Storwize SVC and V7000

System: IBM SVC/V7000, Flashsystem, ProtectTIER, SAN768B-2 Actor: DoD compliant features added to Storage/SAN Hardware Description: Our team IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, like CMS HIGLAS, that are required to ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

FCM Cloning: Lift multiple user limitation for Oracle

For the cloning process of FlashCopy Manager (FCM), it requires two users at the target clone system. One user to recover the cloned database (old sid) and one user to start it with the new sid. Each user runs with his own dedicated $ORACLE_SID. T...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

VM search when restoring - tsm for ve plugin/site

A way to search or select a vm to restore once you click on "initiate a restore" _without_ specifying a host.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

migration process issue

Migration processes runs only 1 process per node. For example if I have a proxy node with terabytes of data on my diskpool, it will start just 1 process to move it all ! That's not feasable in a 12 hr maintenance window to move all data out of the...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Tivoli FCM for VMware

using FCM 3.2.0 We are an SAP shop which on a frequent basis refreshes PRD to QAS environments. We wanted to use FCM to perform this landscape "refresh" . One of the requirements though is to preserve the "TARGET" environment (unmount FS and renam...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Add the SLES11 SP3 support to the FastBack Client and BMR

Currently, FastBack Client and BMR supports only "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 64-bit", but SP3 have already been released on Oct 2013. So, please support SP3 as soon as possible.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for BMR 2 Delivered

Distribute all admin details in a managed environment

All details of admin objects should be distributed in an environment with a configuration manager and clients. As of now, only the name and password is handled.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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