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    Add non root access to ESS nodes with AD authentication

    This RFE is to request the ability for adding non-root user ids to the ESS systems with authentication such as external AD. The current options are: 1) sudo wrappers using the following procedure on page 80 : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgec...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future 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 9 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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Provide method to move VMs & associated backups between different data centers

    We have a deployment coming up where the VMWare administrators are creating a new data center within the same vCenter and VMs from the existing data centers are going to be moved to the new data center. I opened a PMR to find out if there was a wa...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

    TSM client Web GUI in TSM vwersion 8.1.4

    TSM client Web GUI availability in TSM server version 8.1.4.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

    Include VMware Tools in Spectrum Discover appliance

    To be able to make consistent backups of Spectrum Discover appliance, please include open-vm-tools in the OVA version of Spectrum Discover, and please include upgrades of open-vm-tools as a part of the Spectrum Discover upgrade.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

    Ethernet port failure not generating events within a specific time frame

    jeffos (IBM)Oct 04, 2022, 13:43 Hello team, I have discussed this with our SME team and they do agree that since shared technician ports aren't used on the newer platforms, setting a shorter timeout seems sensible. They suggest to submit a Request...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    PCIE hardware - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

    This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    SpectrumProtectPlus Feature add

    Government Audit requirement, customer is requesting. Is there a way on the back end to rename an SLA without impact existing backup data in SPP? 2. Can an editable “description” field be added to the SLA object in the SPP dashboard so we can indi...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    RFE: Chargeback reporting in SPP

    Request from State of Arkansas for chargeback reporting based on the amount of data backed up in SPP per VM. (Not the amount of data stored on the vSnap server, after dedup compression - only amount of data backed up during backup job.)
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

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