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    Better client messaging for unsuported node replication settings needed

    A better client messaging is needed to better find the root cause of incorrect node replication settings.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Allow signed certificates instead of only self-signed for TSM TDP VMWare GUI website

    The certificate being used for the website is self-signed and give a error in browser and VMware Vsphere client
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    DRP Pool -> Migrate vDisk between DRPs

    Introduction of the migratevdisk command for DRP pools.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    Data segregation with filesets link

    The customer has a fileset. The application used is SAP netweaver.It runs on the cluster with one same uid/gid. The physical users are connected to this application remotelly and there is no UID/GID specific to them. One of the SAP transaction per...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Smartcard Authentication for VE web GUI

    Our organization enforces the use of smartcards or tokens to authenticate to servers, workstations, and applications. We are requesting that IBM add a smartcard option to the Spectrum Protect for VE "Web GUI".
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 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.
    about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 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 ...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Need to backup very large EPIC DB files in less than 24 hours

    Currently it takes over 36 hours to backup a 60TB file. Need a way to break up large files and mult-stream the segments to reduce the overall time to backup the EPIC database. Need it significantly below 24 hours.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Protocol replication needs the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing

    Protocol replication has “all-or-nothing” failover/failback process. Cannot test DR for new exports. We need the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing With “AFM-based DR” (which the protocols cluster DR is based on), and indeed fo...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

    One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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