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Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

ability to use SSH for Brocade switches

The current way to add brocade switch/fabrics is only by HTTP or HTTPS. Without the ability to use SSH we can not use Insights features since HTTP and HTTPS has been disabled in our environment.
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Change the unit of retention for snapshot from days to hours

I have a client that needs to do more frequent snapshots and retian them for hours instead of days.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for 3rd party software installation for monitoring/automation software

ISP+ Produkt support is needed for the OVA and RHEL deployment, to install 3rd Party monitoring and automation software at the ISPP vSnap and ISPP operatingsystem layer. The ISP+ Bluprint documentation explicitly dismiss the installation for 3rd p...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GUI snapshot deletion from oldest to newest

Due to inode manipulation, it is a best practice and less effort to the GPFS to delete the oldest snapshot first. However, when doing the snapshot deletion manually, in the client using the GUI, it should also order it from oldest to newest.This w...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Customize At Risk intervals to reflect real environment

In order to have the Operations Center reflect correctly the risk status of Spectrum Protect nodes we should be able to inform accuratedly when the backups really run. Some clients, for instance, have nodes that run backups only on weekdays, so th...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Prioritise selection of zOS Host Connections in Copy Services Manager

Have the ability to be able to prioritise/order which zOS system(s) in the zOS Host Connection panel in Copy Services Manager (CSM) is selected. There is the possibility that some zOS systems added as zOS Host Connections may not have equal CPU ca...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

From RESTAPI be able to query setting on tape library

As a validation check we audit our estate daily looking for changes in configuration not following an agreed pattern. Can we please have a method via RESTAPI to query all the setting that can be set via the GUI Ideally I would like to get these fi...
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Add (Tape) Media livecycle

Add the ability to define a livecycle of a media. This lifecycle should contain a frequency data needs to be moved to a other media and a time a media needs do be disposed. By example, we need to define all tapes of a device class have to be copie...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration