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    Insights NAME field to reflect HMC NAME field or add it into Insights

    It has come to our attention that the NAME field within Insights is actually a reference to the VOLSER from the HMC system. This i s normally not a problem, except on a multi-client box where we put the client name/code in the NAME Field. Without ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    snapdiff AIX

    Please re-add snapdiff functionality to the AIX dsmc. This exists in 7.1 but was dropped in 8.1.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Backup of subdirectories within Windows CIFS SHARES recursively processed despite of deactivation with dsmc incr subdir=no

    In spite of setting the option subdir=no for incremental file backup, mounted CIFS Shares on Windows File Server will be processed recursively. The reason for this behaviour is caused by an unsuccessful execution of the NetShareGetInfo function wi...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

    IBM Spectrum Protect TDP for VE - restore procedure for one of the VMDK should allocate only the space of that VMDK

    TDP for VE, restore one of multiple source hard disks of a VM. The disk to restore is 50GB another disk of the source VM is 2TB, actually the product allows to restore the small (50GB) disk only after allocating the whole space that was used by th...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Backups of Hard links

    Backup of Hard linked files will backup the data blocks once for every hard link.This behavior, where TSM treats all links as regular files, is not optimal since a backup will need to transfer the data more than needed.This should be optional so t...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    1620 callhome event

    1620 mdisk group offline did not callhome due to event being and error 2 event.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Allow client to choose ciphers for HMC's

    The z15 allows the customer to pick the ciphers they want for https: to HMC's
    almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Planned for future release

    Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission

    Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission because in the current version we have to implement multiple settings.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add FLR support for BTRFS in Spectrum Data Protection for Virtual Environments

    File Level Restores for BTRFS subvolumes do not work out of the box when using any of the restore interfaces with Spectrum Data Protect for Virtual Environments. Remounting the iSCSI presented snapshot allows for correct mount, but yes, this invol...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    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 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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