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    The problem of ANE4007E in your case is because you try to backup CITRIX files with a Reparse Tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_CITRIX_PM (

    We are not able to backup user profiles for windows server that belongs to citrix environement.Refer IBM case id for etailed information about case and let me kow if more information needed for thia case.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    SNMPv3 support in GPFS GUI

    Morgan Stanley is asking for upgrade to SNMPv3 (GPFS GUI alerts)
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Administraive user on Filer

    for clustured-data ONTAP NetApp filers, the only capability that is required is ontaoapi with the admin role
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect - Request for unique identifier for summary items

    Please see attached file.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    NetApp SnapDiff Backup without Domain Admin Rights

    We need to do a SnapDiff-Backup of our NetApp. The backup-user must not be a member of the Domain Administrators group.At this time there is no possibility of doing the backup without the membership of Domain Administrators.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    SVR5 format in installation packages for Solaris 11 b/a client is needed

    TSM backup and archive clients on Solaris 11 should be delivered in an IPS/SVR5 package Format (at the moment it is the SVR4 package Format). This “new” package format SVR5 was introduced with the release of Solaris 11 in 2011 (hence it's more tha...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    allow metromirror between hyperswap clusternodes

    Provide possibility to create metro mirror relationships between 2 storwize hyperswap cluster nodes.currently this can be only done through command line.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Not reuse the same password

    TSM Controls does guarantee that the password expire every 90 days, however, it does not have a way to guarantee that the password that is being used is different than the previous one. To avoid findings uncovered in the area of TSM compliance, I ...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    FCM VMware: Provide ability to specify multiple values of MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV

    We need to ability to customize MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV. We are limited to only one MAX_VERSIONS parm with XIV.
    about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries

    We have the requirement to connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries (readonly, so only select) and have some questions: - If we run a pod with our Python code in the Spectrum Discover namespace in OpenShift can we add the secret "db...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 4 Not under consideration

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