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Restrict FCM to manage the own source and target volumes (multi tenancy)

Reference: Technical Exchange call with Mr. Uhl, Munz, Calvus 7/18/2013In a shared SAN-enviroment, security is very important for a service provider with multiple customers. We want to use FCM running on different operating systems in combination ...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Able to do mmcallback to stop the GPFS event, exemple prevent to unmount filesystems if services are still running

It would be nice to be able to configure a mmcallback in Spectrum Scale where the return code of the command run by the callback could stop the GPFS event. Actually, from the IBM documentation, GPFS can make 3 differents things in a mmcallback : -...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

SI reporting for Scale quotas needs more info

When using quotas on Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced. Native Scale commands can report on how much grace is left. SI (and presumably SC) doesn't report this.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Windows Spectrum Protect Client no need of Backupoperator to backup Shares

We use System Protect Client for Windows to backup/Archive files on our NAS from NetApp. But the System Protect Client for Windows needs to run with backupoperator rights. This is ok, if I am the only user. But a user with this right, has at least...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

FCM: Support disk partitions on Linux

The customer requires support for disk partitions on Linux. Statement 2.0.10 of the FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux prerequisites checklist explicitly excludes this support.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Admin permissions just for a domain

More and more of our customers are requesting access to our Operation Center, but in the current functionality of TSM and Operation Center there is no way to deny/grant access to a certain domain.What we are requesting is a way to shield the domai...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Store SSL Certificate using name instead of IP on client dsmcert.kdb

When connecting to a new Spectrum Protect server, certificate to the client dsmcert.kdb file is automatically added with a label of "ipaddress:port". This is problem with tunnel configuration where each Spectrum Protect server is associated to the...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM4VE: restore a vm with multiple hard drive's to different datastore's using vcenter plugin or BA client.

We use TSM4VE to backup VM's to Data Domain, SAP/ORACLE is hosted on VMware.We have RHEL VM's with multiple Hard drives(upto 30) on multiple datastores(raid 5, raid 1/0, dedicated datastores for data, logs, os). There is every chance that a VM is ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is Windows node

When run from Scale node on x86 RHEL 7.3 (x86), mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is a Windows node.Moreover, it fails inconsistently when used with the node's "Scale" interface vs. the Admin node name, providing additional confusion.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Hung Process control

During the time of impact to the GUI we encountered an issue with generating support saves which slowed down and increased delays in recovery. If there was a method to kill the current running process used for the support save collection, it might...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

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