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Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem.

Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.4
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Add option to SPP to disable automatic connection to IBM update center.

There's a long timeout when using the Administrative Console before it is possible to click on "Updates and Hotfix Management" when there's no connection to IBM update center. After this long timeout when it is possible to click and go to the "Upd...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Feature so you can have managed SP instances when using TAG based vmware backup

We have quite a few SP servers that are all managed, but now we have to stop that because when doing vmware backup to a Spectrum protect server it can not longer be managed. This is due to the fact that with 8.1.4 the vmgui admin user will update ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Fields for frame/tray/disk expandability

Currently in a DS8k storage GUI we can see the little graphic of the frames connected and all the components inside each frame. we need the ability to see this graphical information in columns so we can determine if a frame has any expand-ability ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept FQDN commserver

dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept a FQDN server name by design. FQDN must be used with CA signed certificates and should therefore be supported.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Add Optional Timeout Value for AoS Enablement

The TSSC home screen has a button that allows a user to Start or Stop AoS. This functionality could benefit from allowing an optional timeout value that would specify the maximum amount of time AoS can remain enabled. This is useful because allowi...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Infiiband on Storwize (SVC, V7000 and or V5000)

Infinband usage is being seen in competitors products and need to know when it will be incorporated in the Storwize offering. We're losing deals in DoE labs and NASA to NetApp and Dell because we don't have IB connected storage..
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SVC/Storwize doesn't generate errors on certain conditions that are serious problems

Certain types of errors on the SVC and Storwize family of products that represent an actual problem with the system are flagged as warnings. Among these are error 1138, which represents an external loss of power. This is an event that warrants cus...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

FCM: Central Management GUI

The customer which are using FCM require a central management GUI to manage all FCM environments. In addition, it would be a good idea to integrate the gui with TSM. Also it is interesting because FCM under UNIX platforms don't have any graphical ...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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