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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

Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Add a dictionary search

We can already use regex to inspect documents and add tags to them. But is there a more convenient way to add whole dictionaries? I would like to add the following functionality: We define a dictionary called "Hamburg" with hundreds or possibly th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 2 Not under consideration

Support for more than 16 tape drives

Michael at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to add more than 16 tape drives to TS7700 in future.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

GPFS supports parameters to control the memory of pmcollector

Status: Excessive memory occupy
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP support for Cloud applications

Customers start asking for data protection of cloud applications to a larger extent.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DS8000 needs to allow customer access to detailed debugging logs for cloud related activities.

Currently network activity and error states between the DS8000 and cloud porividers, and also between DS8000 and z/OS, is not available to view. The only log available is the audit log which does not provide detail on how the DS8000 preceives or h...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Automatic ingest for new tapes

I want to load new tapes into I/O slots and have them automatically moved into available slots based on function (data tape or cleaning tape). Right now, at least one magazine must be fully removed to add new tapes.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Future consideration

qos support dio

qos support dio
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration