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    WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

    Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Change how SVC GUI pool percentages are calculated

    Currently, the SVC GUI calculates pool utilization (volumes by pool section) by utilized / virtual capacity. This gives you a false sense of utilization because if you're overprovisioned, you will hit the physical capacity and the pool will go rea...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Operations Center alerting modification

    Configure alerting only on the hub server. The hub server should be the monitoring instance which is configured to send emails to administrators defined on hub server. The configuration wizard only shows the admin id's of the hub server. This curr...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    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...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

    Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

    It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    TSM BAClient for Solaris 11 x86

    A TSM Backup Archive Client for Solaris 11 x86.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

    Customization of Client Auto-deployment Schedule

    We would like to modify the auto deploy schedule in order to make it successful in our environment.In our infra, we do have multiple nodes configured for same host, hence multiple CAD services are running.After version 8.1.11, we are unable to sta...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

    GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

    Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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