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enhance security control in Kerberos based NFS to enable changes of Group / User during TGT Renewal time

Ganesha NFS uses Kerberos Tickets PAC to map user access control. This PAC ic valid as long as the Ticket is valid. If the user gets changed for any urgent reasons, this is realized only when TGT is invalidated and a new TGT is provided.In many ca...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for secure NDMP

NAS filer (i.e.NetApp) are supporting secure NDMP.This ensures secure communication between the NDMP server and the backup application.https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2348067/html/GUID-E3157FCA-CAE6-4614-A549-557025A2EC46.html Spectrum Pro...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM needs basic functionality on ALL common OS:es

The TSM client segfaults on startup on Fedora 18. While Fedora 18 hasn't yet made it to the best-effort support category, IBM should at least try to have dsmc basic functionality on all common operating systems. I'm also told that Ubuntu 13.04 use...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM under SPP

VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM : This option allowss Sp for VE tolerates VM with RDMs. It is necessary because these SO VMs can't be saved with SPP.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

why exclude.dir not favor archive?

why exclude.dir not favor archive?and there is no other option for exclude dir for archive backup.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Report the opened IBM ticket number back to the Storwize GUI after a call home occurred.

Feature: Report the opened IBM ticket number back to the Storwize GUI after a call home occurred. When the Storwize system makes a call home we do not know if it successfully created a ticket at IBM. Also when IBM calls back and you have multiple ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

export server does not include scripts etc.

When running export server in order to import srversettings in an brand new server not everything is includen. I miss scripts, proxy settings, servr and node groups from the data exported out of the old server.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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