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Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect - Request for unique identifier for summary items

Please see attached file.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

NetApp SnapDiff Backup without Domain Admin Rights

We need to do a SnapDiff-Backup of our NetApp. The backup-user must not be a member of the Domain Administrators group.At this time there is no possibility of doing the backup without the membership of Domain Administrators.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SVR5 format in installation packages for Solaris 11 b/a client is needed

TSM backup and archive clients on Solaris 11 should be delivered in an IPS/SVR5 package Format (at the moment it is the SVR4 package Format). This “new” package format SVR5 was introduced with the release of Solaris 11 in 2011 (hence it's more tha...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

allow metromirror between hyperswap clusternodes

Provide possibility to create metro mirror relationships between 2 storwize hyperswap cluster nodes.currently this can be only done through command line.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add Comprehensive Spectrum Protect support for OpenStack

Our organization currently uses IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments for VMWare to provide data protection for VMware VM instances using the common vSphere web GUI inteface.The imminent direction for the organization is to move to the ope...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Which userid does restore a file ?

For tracing, for auditing reasons we want to know the TSM administrator name of the administrator which restores an object (file, directory).TSM web client is used for the restore.Looking in server actlog there are two messages ANR0503I (with the ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Teradata Data Stream Architecture (DSA) support

Today they backup with TSM Teradata with BAR and would like to start using TSM with DSA. So they can use the new and enhanced alternative, and an eventual replacement to the legacy ARC-based BAR architecture that will triple backup performance and...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

include all TSM client products in autodeploy

Include all the TSM client products (TDP, etc.) in the functionality of autodeploy.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

nfsv4 kerberized solution

We would like a solution to get the better performance and security of NFSv4 in a kerberized environment. This solution is to be supported in IBM Spectrum Scale protocol nodes.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration