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Report Restore VM in SPP

Auditor person want to report restore same as menu function report vm backup history but in ibm spectrum protect plus not have
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Lustre File System Support

In our many ongoing deals, "Lustre Support" is required by our customer.Luster Filesystem is supported by many other vendors, and our many potential customers have already introduced Luster Filesystem to their systems.Moreover, Luster support is o...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Don't send alerts for tape drives cleaning in the library that it automatically has cleaned.

We got this alerts. "Job 521576/QSYS/QTAPARB Device NDCMLB02 needs to be cleaned. Cause . . . . . : The tape drive read/write heads have become dirty and need to be cleaned. Recovery . . . : Clean drive NDCMLB02 by following recommended cleaning...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

FILE class mount retention

Enable MOUNTRET on FILE class volumes.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

File restore GUI: Microsoft Windows user account cannot access its own user folders

When using File Restore GUI to restore single files to a Windows vm you get an access denied error when trying to restore files and folders protected by UAC. This can be profile folders (C:\Users) or the DATA folder in a SQL instance. The problem ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Scheduler should skulk "In Progress" events and vcenter jobs

If DSMC aborts after completing a filespace or VM backup, but before sending the backup summary, then the events table will forever show "In Progress". Further, for VM backups, vcenter will perpetually show the backup as running. When a scheduler ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Data Integrity Verification during storage pool hierarchy (copy/migration)

We use IBM TSM for our long term data archives (company asset), and we regularly copy the primary storage pool (tape) to copy-storage pool (tape), mainly for Disaster Recovery. In addition, IBM TSM migrates data from pool to pool as a regular proc...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Support for Windows Client nodes in AFM Cache Cluster

Require support for Spectrum Scale Windows client nodes with AFM Cache clusters.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

VMware Linux File-Level Restore Using Active Directory Domain Login ID

VMware Linux File-Level Restores does not allow for Microsoft Active Directory Domain based User Logins with Multifactor Authentication.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Rolling upgrade of CES protocol node with object services

Current operation: Because object operations interact with all nodes, all object nodes must be at the same level. Therefore, object services need to be stopped across the cluster for the duration of the upgrade. This RFE is for allowing rolling up...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration