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    Resource Quota for Fusion Backup service

    Currently, it is hard to estimate the amount of resources that Fusion backup service will consume. This makes it hard to size and license for the OCP infrastructure required. Will be good if we can allow user to set a resource quota for Fusion bac...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Firmware Check

    System: TS4500Actor: Customer Commerzbank is asking for enhancements regarding library firmware check.Case was opened on behalf of client Commerzbank as a follow up for a critical situation.
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    SPP Container backup support unsupported storage class exclusion

    We wish to have a better exclusion feature for currently unsupported storage classes.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Bring FICON ports offline

    We have TS7700 that need to be isolated from production system. Having the possibility to vary FICON port down on VTS will add another security for data.
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Future consideration

    show total host fibre port count

    2048 is the hard limit for Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group. It would be useful if the system could show how many ports are defined and in use in the fibre channel connectivity panel. Thanks
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Host cluster view option

    It would be useful to have an option that shows host clusters in the overview panel where hosts are shown. I have attached a drawing of what it could look like. Thanks
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

    Integrate the use of RELP protocol in DS8K for syslog management

    RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in DS8K would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    non-root users access behaviour with version SP 8

    Customer needs for SP version 8 to allow "other users" (non-root users and not "authorized users" for SP point of view) to use dsmc in order to restore their files The requirement is to continue with behaviour as per TSM 7.16 (https://www.ibm.com/...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Much better documentation of the SPP REST API for container backup (OpenShift) is urgently needed

    The official reference to the REST API (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSNQFQ_10.1.8/pdf/RestApiRef_v1018.pdf) only deals with two of the basic functions for starting an inventory search and an ad hoc backup with regard to OpenShift, if all other ste...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect KMIP support for encryption

    Basically requesting SP products compatibility with KMIP when using Spectrum Protect products built-in encryption capabilities.We are seeing encryption demands more and more every day and most of time customers want to have a unified encryption ke...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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