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TS4500 improve Remote Authentication (LDAP, RACF) support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor authentication is a major component of security policies in many companies. TS4500 supports remote authentication with MFA when used with Duo (authentication proxy). However, this client has already invested in an MFA infrastructure t...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Support 256 or more cluster watches per cluster.

Only 25 cluster watches are supported per cluster, but we need 256 at least.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance the deactivate data command with optional filespace parameter

At this moment, the deactivate data command allows one to deactivate data on the node level only. If the filespace parameter is added to the command, one could use this command to deactivate all data for one (or more) filespaces only. Deactivatein...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Need a way to move clients between vsnap servers to load balance use of vsnaps

Customer would like the ability to move clients from one vsnap to another to help balance the use of the vsnap servers in their environment.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP monitoring for Ticket

SPP failure alerts support for monitoring tools
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to change SQL agent communication IPs

The SPP SQL Agent needs to communicate with the ISP GUI to get the credentials for mounting the SMB log volume from the vSnap.Unfortunately it's not possible to change the IP or network which is used for this communication. This is a big issue in ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus SLA removal options

When removing SLA in Spectrum Protect Plus the following options should be presented:1. Delete now2. Preserve until retention expires3. Retention hold
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

REST API - Quotas for Users and Groups

Create a REST API to show User and Group quotas. Currently, the only quotas are Filesystems and Filesets - If users have a homedir set to a fileset you can get their quota, however if user or group quotas are set they cannot be retrieved.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SAEE - Ability to change behavior of tape drive selection mechanism for transparent recalls to use also redundant copy and distribute workload to all copies

Customer can use all available HW resources - all tape drives in all tape libraries for transparent recalls and increase throughput of recalls. It could be fine If I can set copies which will be available for transparent recalls. Customer faces pr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

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