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    Supporting more than 512 characters in the GUI of TDP4VE

    You cannot use in the GUI scheduler of TDP4VE more than 512 characters to put VMClient in the backup
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    request client management service for AIX

    client management service for AIX to use Operation Center functionality
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Which userid does restore a file ?

    For tracing, for auditing reasons we want to know the TSM administrator name of the administrator which restores an object (file, directory).TSM web client is used for the restore.Looking in server actlog there are two messages ANR0503I (with the ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    nfsv4 kerberized solution

    We would like a solution to get the better performance and security of NFSv4 in a kerberized environment. This solution is to be supported in IBM Spectrum Scale protocol nodes.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    AFM Replication to Cloud on HCI Systems based on scale

    support hybrid deployments for HCI systems based on Scale ECE
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    Archive option for TSM for VE long term

    Hi to keeping Long-term data retention with Virtual Machine, the listed solution is recomended from IBM.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21651348However this solution has caveats such as not capable to expire exports very long run ...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

    We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    TSM and Guard Point Backup Process

    System: IBM TSM BA ClientActor: TSM AdministratorNeed: Update TSM BA Client TSM BA Client is used to backup and restore critical business data on thousands of servers nightly. Update the TSM BA Client for all Unix Platforms to backup and restore G...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Allow no lock control option on specific protocol exports

    Some workloads do not need ensuring lock and an offering if parallel access will be needed or not (specially for CIFS). So for some workloads CTDB would not necessarily be used on all exports
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    modify behavior of ldap authentication cache expiration

    Currently ldap authentication cache expiration timeouts can be set via commandline:e.g.:chldap -authcacheminutes 60would set the authentication cache to be refreshed every hour. This is a fixed timer that starts to count when user logs in and woul...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

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