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    Searching Indexing File Search Results Would Show Ownership and Permissions

    Customer has a desire to view the file ownership and permission on each file once a search is done on the global index
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Fusion HCI Regional DR with Scale protocol instead of NFSv3

    Using NFSv3 across WAN links can be impossible when customers are using IP renaming technology (via VIP and WIPs). The hard dependency on NFSv3 for AFM-DR (regional DR) has been lifted by the Scale team as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

    If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect

    Migration from CPS

    Provide capability for customers to move from legacy CPS hardware to fusion
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to set schedule on the TS7700 cache process

    By the default, the TS7700 cache walk process runs every four hours daily, except on Sunday for a period of about 18 hours. This cache walk process has raised some concern from many customers that it may impact job run time.
    about 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    DD Boost for OpenStorage

    We need an OST plug-in that we will install on each media server. This plug-in includes the DDBoost libraries to integrate with the DD Boost server that runs on the Data Domain system.With EMC Data Domain Boost (DD Boost) for OpenStorage enables m...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    LVM mirror support within a single storage system, also without backup server.

    We have a clustered pair of V7000 Gen3's which I would like to use with SPS for DB2 database snapshots. SPS does not currently support either hyperswap volumes, or LVM mirroring of two volumes on the same storage system (copies of which would resi...
    about 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Hyperswap support for Spectrum Protect Snapshot

    We have a clustered pair of V7000 Gen3's which I would like to use with SPS for DB2 database snapshots. SPS does not currently support either hyperswap volumes, or LVM mirroring of two volumes on the same storage system (copies of which would resi...
    about 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Self cooling racks

    We run into instances where the DC does not have adequate cooling. We can provide the customer with option of self cooling racks, such as - https://www.netrackindia.com/blog/self-contained-racks-with-cooling/ We ship the stacked racks to the custo...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    Make mmclone permissions work like cp

    Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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