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Spectrum Control on Red Hat on Power LE

Spectrum Control need to run on these architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (may be other distributions) on Power Little Endian Architectures (RHEL 8.x LE on S9xx L servers, LCxxx servers, AC922 servers). All the stack is from IBM or subsidiaries.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI need to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen.

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy needs to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen. V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI now takes 16 keystrokes to view 7 consistency group freeze times. It takes 3 keystrokes to view one consistency group freeze...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Future consideration

Support for MS Sharepoint

Support for the protect of Microsoft Sharepoint environments on-premis. File-level recovery.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide option to prevent object-splitting on tape

Having clients archiving and restoring directly to and from tape we're trying to have the least possible amount of tape mounts. However at the end of a lot of tapes the last file gets split when EOV occurs. There should be an option to consider a ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow more authentication services for multitenancy

Currently only one authentication services can be defined in Spectrum Virtualize systems. Although the storage allowes more authentication servers to be registered, but that for reliability (availability) reasons. (same domain) The goal is to achi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

use CSM to create volumes and replication from end to end

CSM has the knowledge of the box and replication. We could imagine defining policy in CSM with replication type etc... (MM, MGM ...) and when we define new volumes, let CSM create LVOLS on all DS8k and create replication link defined in the policy...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Set permission for support: with customized client message or schedule of when collection of support data is allowed

Currently client can define in “set permission for support” if he allows support to collect support data without asking the client in advance This new feature will allow customer to either set a customized message 1/ ““Please collect data via SI o...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - G Suite support needed

We need local backup for ours users who has been migrate from Domino to G Suite.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration