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Improved LDAP support for Security Administrator users in DS8000

If you want to use the Export/Import LDAP Remote Authentication configuration option, and you have at least one Security Administrator (SA) user defined, when you Import the existing configuration in a new DS8000, the SA user is not imported becau...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Performance data exported from SI should be in customer timezone

Performance data exported from SI are always provided in CST timezone, not in customer timezone. this is a concert for the user
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

To simplify the deployment of workloads in the cloud, IBM must improve the performance of the Scale command "mmaddnode" to allow for faster spin up/down of resources.

Nodes in the cloud need to be spun up quickly as needed. Currently mmaddnode takes too long to add a significant number of nodes as it sequentially adds nodes to the cluster; not only that, but other commands like mmchlicense, mmchnodeclass, and m...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

SPP to backup resources (metadata) from Kubernetes, not only pv, by namespaces

We need support for backup of a namespace being not only able to backup and restore PV but also secrets, ConfigMaps, deployments, routes, services. of a Kubernetes namespace
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

REST API for TS7700

We would like to have an option to check the configuration of a TS7700 with an automated script. What pools, SMS constructs, how many volsers, etc. are configured.We have good experiences in REST API with DS8000 and would like to have a REST API i...
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

LWORM immutability

why is it useful? append is still a change, closer to an air gap solution who would benefit? Sheltered Harbor and applications seeking to create immutable copies on tape using LWORM how should it work? A global parm to allow or not allow a tape da...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

We need the ability to convert a Thin Clone recovery into a Full Clone recovery.

While a Thin Clone is desired for testing of a snapshot recovery, a successful validation requires a second recovery of the snapshot in order to obtain volumes not dependent on the source volumes. Without removing the dependencies, volumes with de...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Provide support for COS WORM (and other S3 or BLOB equivalent WORM features)

Multiple customers and BPs have requested that Spectrum Protect supports the WORM functionality in S3 offload, be that the COS specific or the general S3 protocol WORM functionality. While not specifically required it also seems prudent to extend ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

SPP: Enable filesystem & DB Backup at the same time

When looking in the System requirements for SPP, the following restriction is mentioned: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6421231 Only one application server or file server can be assigned per host. For example, if a host is registered as a ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Replication Job shows as "Error" if no data is there to process

When using the replication of vSnap backup storage data and no "new" backup data is available in the source vSnap, SPP identifies the replication job as "Error" which is not true.In fact, just no new data is available in the source vSnap server. S...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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