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    SPP - Support for Centrify dzdo where sudo is called

    Spectrum Protect Plus has a requirement for the Linux sudo command to be present for installation and configuration tasks. My customer has a security requirement where sudo commands are not allowed. Customer uses Centrify dzdo to provide the eleva...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Implement Incremental NDMP backup for NetApp filers

    We would like to be able to run incremental backups of our Netapp filer using NDMP. ie be able to run a command similar to backup node netapp1 /vol/backup mode=incrEven if the number of incrementals was limited.
    almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

    SnapDiff to tape

    Add feature to make incremental/differential backups of Netapp volumes to tapes base on changed blocks. A New Backup Architecture for NAS Systems - SnapDiff V3 (netapp.com)
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

    extent mirroring rather than migrate within the context of EasyTier

    Customer is requesting that the EasyTier functionality that currently migrates extents from spinning disk to SSD/Flash incorporate an extent mirror command instead.
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under 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...
    almost 9 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
    about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Make GUI less mouse-scrolling-mayham

    When working in GUI (I long for a CLi) it is divided into different parts using scrollable text-boxes. No part of GUI seem to be resizable, which makes working in GUI hard. When choosing a SLA I need to scroll the SLA-policy-text-box and if I scro...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Improve VM Restore GUI

    Remove the necessity of choosing "Type of Restore." Make one of the options (on-demand) the default. Add a button to show all available restore points without having to poke around in the calendar.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection.

    Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection. This makes some reporting / alerting tools to believe that a backup may be configured incorrectly when it's clearly not the case.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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