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    Data Manager reports should recognize GPFS & VMFS as a cluster

    The report Data Manager > Reporting > TPC-wide Storage Space > File System Space > By cluster does not show GPFS clusters or VMware ESX clusters as a cluster. They are shown under By Computer. As a result, the file space in /VMFS (ESX ...
    almost 15 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

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    Security/Audit demands an authorised legal disclaimer is displayed and acknowledged before user access to IT systems, services or devices is granted
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Client encryption for LAN-free to the IBM Spectrum Protect server V8.1.9.300

    I need to run a backup with the option of client encryption for LAN-free to the IBM Spectrum Protect server V8.1.9.300
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle on AIX support for Oracle 19c multi-tenant databases

    The request is for Spectrum Protect Snapshot support for Oracle 19c multitenant (pluggable) databases.
    almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    Include backed up data amount in ANR4550I

    Why was the amount of data backed up removed from ANR4550I (and ANR4558I)?
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Searchable data in from TSM Server

    Request to make data searchable from the TSM Server. We have requests to search meta data for owner, creation date or file type for E-discovery.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Copy Data Management to support BtrFS for file system snaps

    While on a SuSE OS LPAR the file system snapshot management is working for XFS, however the protection is not available for BtrFS (by default used for SuSE OS)
    almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    TFCM with Oracle ASM single user environment

    Oracle supports the use of a single user setup to manage both the database instance and the ASM services. As such the client has standardized on a single user in it's Oracle ASM environment. TFCM requires both an Oracle instance user for the datab...
    almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    AD with autoID mode to support NFSv4 Kerberos authentication

    Need cross platform access (NFS and SMB) in an AD domain where the AD-LDS is not RFC2307 compliant. We need to be able to use AD with autoID mode to support NFSv4 Kerberos authentication. Using the kerberos ticket for IDMAP instead of UID is a use...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    mmaddnode error message enhancement

    mmaddnode failed with a "node already belongs to GPFS cluster" error. But the problem ended up being that a reverse DNS lookup of the IP address of the node being added returned the IP address of a node that already belonged to the cluster. Since ...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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