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Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Create, modify and remove TSM scripts

We want the functionality to create, modify and remove TSM/SP scripts from the Operation Center. This was a standard functionality in Tivoli Intergrated Portal but is not availible in the OC
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for Db2 Purescale

Customer who has majority of database residing on Db2 of which 90%+ of those databases are Db2 Purescale requires support for this platform in Spectrum Protect Plus.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to Specify protocol -- rdma/tcp -- along with the subnet/cluster reachability

Consider the following use-case: There are two clusters each with multiple nodes. The intra-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes within the cluster) happens via TCP and inter-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes between clusters) happens v...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Omnipath network support by Elastic Storage Server 3500/6000 (now called IBM Storage Scale System 3500)

IDRIS is an Education and Research customer hosting on of the largest compute center in France for several research entities (CNRS, GENCI, ... : http://www.idris.fr/). They currently use a very large Spectrum Scale appliance configuration with Len...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

DRM Manager should support Container Pool

DRM must support container pool.There is no information for container pool in the drm planfile. We need information which offsite/onsite tapes we need to recover container pools. We can checkout the tapes with drm commands but have no information ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

OC License History

OC already has reports from FrontEnd and BackEnd licensing, however many customers would like to be able to track the historical consumption of their licenses, to allow a better forecast of how much they have been using.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Expire individual backups in Spectrum Protect Plus

Expire individual host/application backups assigned to SLA policy
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Change password expiration for only one userid

Hello, We would like to know if it is possible to create a command to change the password expiration for only one userid, not for all the userid on the ds8k. today when we use the chpass command the password is changed for al the user id from the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Support GC-GC cascaded start option in 3 site MT sessions

When using CSM for migration scenarios in 3 site topologies, a typical approach is to migrate via PPRC Failover or HyperSwap from old MGM cascade to a new GC-GC cascade. Today, the new GC-GC cascade requires to use temporary 2 site MM sessions bei...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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