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Add wait=yes to audit command

We would like to have a "wait=yes" option to the audit volume command. I think this should be done since audit container has this option.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for HPe 3PAR

Customer (a large SP and competition (mainly for VMware) user) is running an RFI concerning backup/recovery. Part of this RFI is protection of VMware. Customer is using HP 3PAR hardware for their VMware vSphere enviroment.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE (vCloud) should report vApp backup failure when associated VM backups are not successful

TSM/ISP for VE reports that a backup of a vCloud vApp is successful even when a backup of a VM within that vApp has failed. When one VM associated with a vApp failed to back up, TSM still reported: 03/06/2017 20:05:12 Total number of vApps process...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM VE - Instant restore with FC presented LUN

For enviroments that cannot use iScsi, an optional method would be FC or NFS.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Support for SNMPv3 on the TS4300.

While SNMPv3 was supported on the older TS3100, it's not supported on the new generation TS4300 for more secure communication and the customer would like that feature to be added to the TS4300.
almost 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Add equivalent of "issue message" command to DSMC, so it will be logged on client as well

Recently I answered an RFP question regarding different automation techniques, including the use of Issue Message dsmadmc command to send a message to the server activity log. I realized that this functionality would be enhanced if we could issue ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to TS7700 VESHSTATS statistics

Enhancements in next VEHSTATS reports:H21ADPSU Add information about how many FICON channels are working and the nominal transfer speed (4GB, 8GB, ...) on every cluster.H33GRID Add information about how many gridlinks are working and the nominal t...
almost 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Security: Spectrum Scale read-only access on client nodes

We would like to distribute software using a Spectrum Scale filesystem to compute nodes in an HPC environment but want to make sure malicous users cannot modify files which would enable them to spread malware. In NFS environments this can be estab...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for Grouping protocol nodes for separate workloads

Client would like the ability to group Protocol nodes for specific uses rather than having every protocol sharing every export.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect and Open LDAP

A lot of customer use an openLDAP to secure their IT and enforce all application to use it.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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