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Data inegrity checksum on stored data

In the time of Big Data the storage solutions are increasing in magnitude. With the growth of the data the risk of being hit by a silent data corruption also increases. Spectrum Scale itself does not check the data integrity stored on the NSD. It ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SPP - Option for Non-memory Snapshot

By default SPP always takes a memory snapshot.Although SPP has the option to disable VSS (Quiesced Snapshot), it doesn not have the option to disable a memory snapshot.We NEED the option to disable memory snapshot for some VMs which cannot be snap...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow guest access to an SMB share

With medical instruments and probably many other devices not always connected to an Active Directory domain due to aging operating systems on the instruments' consoles or instruments' vendors restrictions or limitations, it would be necessary for ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Request for IBM i partitions to not allow more than the maximum number of supported disks per Virtual FC connection/adapter.

When customers add disk and multiple paths beyond the supported limits (i.e. 127 paths), they are allowed to do this, until they IPL and fail with SRC A6005090, A6000255, A6000266 without any obvious indication of why the IPL failed. This request ...
5 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TAPETOOLS should be part of z/OS

TAPETOOLS is currently shipped as a set of stand alone utilities. These need to be updated on a regular basis. The process of white washing Internet downloads and introducing them to the z/OS environment is getting very restrictive at some custome...
over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add option Session expiration time

In addition to this delivered option for idle session logout https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CSM-I-123 Security requirements are asking for a an absolute logout. A user is logged in, but can stay logged in indefinitely if not idle. The...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

Add an 'absolute' logout option for the VTS Management interface

Due to more restrictive security requirements we're asking to have an addition logout option for the VTS Management Interface. In addition to the session timeout option add an absolute timeout option. Whether the session is idle or not have the op...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

Add an 'absolute' logout for DS8 GUI and CLI

Along with the idle timeout on the DS8 GUI, further security restrictions are requiring us to have an 'absolute' logout time. Even if session is NOT idle a login could not be longer than 12 hours (for example). This should be included on the DS8 G...
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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