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SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

decommission of a node or vm requires system level privilege

When decommissioning a node or VM – even if the user is the node owner they cannot decommission it. To decommission anything you have to have system level privileges. Yes, this is an issue as we have to provide elevated permissions to contractors ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Improve SPP handling of ICOS retention Vaults

IBM SPP handling of IBM COS Retention Vaults does not guarantee protection of all objects referred in full backups. Offloading or copying to IBM COS retention vaults is done to offer "Cyber Resiliency" for a certain amount of defined time, for exa...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

RestAPI to be able to set priority verification for a tape volume for Media Verification.

Requestion the ability to set priority verification on a tape volume via the Rest API.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CSM - add 'if then' functionality to a scheduled task

Client wants a scheduled task to be able to determine the active host and issue commands to the active host
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect AD LDAP enhancement for multiple AD domains

As of now Spectrum Protect can authenticate against single AD domain. However, we have Spectrum protect administrators from multiple different regions around the globe and administrators from each region have AD account on their own AD domain. For...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

SPP SQL restore should have an option to restore to a different directory

There is no option to restore a SQL backup to a different directory. IBM support tested it and only option is to choose a different db name which will be unique and not affect the Sql instance already there.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - DB validation prior to tape restore

Requesting that IBM complete a precheck of the system/DB target prior to the starting of the tape restore using Production mode. The case referenced above - TS006352692 was generated after waiting 36 hours for the tape restore and failure could ha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Exchange large files (> 4GB) between Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive clusters

ZF has the requirement to exchange mainly large files (> 4GB) between Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive clusters in Germany and Poland. The capacities to be exported are up to 500 TB per day. The requirement is that the files that are exchang...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

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