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Add support for Subject Alternate Name in certificate request through the GUI.

Chrome 58 and above now checks for the presence of the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. If it isn't found, the certificate is deemed to be insecure or broken. The new GUI certificate request feature should ask the user for the SAN name d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmsdrrestore command able to restore Zimon configuration files

The files /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonCollector.cfg and /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonSensors.cfg are needed for the pmcollector and pmsensors daemons.When a node is re-installed we use the mmsdrrestore command to restore the GPFS node configuration. Unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS

We are using spectrum protect backup software to backup windows environments, one of the requirement from business side to backup CSVFS file system, which is not supported yet.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Load Balance of TSM for VE Datamovers

When you have 1000's of Virtual Machines and a daily changes in your environment, it get's really hard to get a good a easy overview which Datamover that has less load. It should be good if the datamovers could talk to each other and spread the wo...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Querying actlog with option MSGNO can only be done with one argument, this should be extendend to use more arguments

The search in Actlog with the msgno option should be extended so that it is possible to search for several message numbers. For example, msgno=0293,0294 should be possible in a query so that you can see the start and end of an action, therefore yo...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Improve TSM DB protection

Currently TSM Server v6 supports the following recovery targets: 1) PIT of the TSM DB backup; 2) most recent PIT. This RFE is opened to request an enhancement to improve TSM DB recoverability by leveraging existing native DB2 functionality to allo...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add NDMP Plugin Functionality for Spectrum Scale File System Backup

Since Spectrum Scale Cluster 5.1.1 containing ESS3000 nodes can hold billions of files in a file system, its a must feature to come up with NDMP plugin in the Spectrum Scale for backup purpose to speed up the backup performance. Backing up files d...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect file-level client to support Isilon NAS changelist function.

The EMC Isilon has a Changelist function that shows the activity between snapshots. The request is to use that function to get a list of files to back up or expire (similar to the SnapDiff API on NetApp TSM currently exploits).
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Support for RoW on snapshots

Redirect on Write (RoW) is a less space consuming option for snapshots (at potential expense of more workload required for deletions).
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on Power Linux server

The customer has ISP on Power AIX server and want to enhance BCP between two sites with low bandwidth.I understand that Linux on IA server is supported.But this customer want to get end to end support from IBM.And we also want to exclude competito...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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