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Make mmclone permissions work like cp

Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

The Protection summary screen shouldn't show the replica VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus "Protection Summary" screen shows our replica machines that replicated with Recover Point.This is a misleading situation. Both our machine count and the number of machines that are not backed up seem wrong.It needs to be fixed.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Hyper-V Cloud Backup

Here is my requirement for hyper-v cloud backup and restore. FYI: Net Backup have all these features. 1)      Simultaneous Guest backups on Cluster Shared Volume.2)      Follows a Guest around the ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Optimized backup support for deduplicated windows server file systems

TSM client cannot deal with natively deduplicated windows filesystems, it is only able to handle deduplicated data efficiently through image backups.The problem is that image backups are not incremental, they are huge and take too long to be viabl...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

TS4500 mini PC placement

I had the opportunity to watch the SSRs working on Call Home problem with the TS4500. I would like to suggest an engineering change on the IMC min PC physical placement for consideration. The IMC mini PC is placed at the bottom corner of the end f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable. This would useful during production monitoring.
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Temporary Threshold Removal for any Cache Partition

Enable Temporary Threshold Removal on Models TS7770 - VED-Tape attached for all Cache Partitions CP0-7.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Self service file restore from tape - support for multiple volume mounts

Using self service file restore GUI if customer is having more than one volume to restore, the single file restore is failing from tape. The same thing works excellently from DISK. Since most of the customers stores their data on tape, its difficu...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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