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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

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

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

Backup of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments

Currently there is no support for backups of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments with TSM/ISP4VE (which is stated in the documentation). Due to the fact that some customers require encryption for their VMware environments, support for the new (V6.5...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Secure LCU from PPRC Target

I would like to be able to keep a volume(s) from being used for a PPRC target. I would prefer it to be protected at the LCU/LSS level. Since there is no user associated with a PPRC target, resource groups do not apply. I want to be able to protect...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Add Spectrum Scale with SSH key in Spectrum Control

Currently Spectrum Scale can be added only with password authorization. Requet is to implement SSH key authorization. Once user password is changed in Spectrum Scale , we lose collecting data until password is changed in Spectrum Control according...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

TSM B/A Client "archive vm" equivalent of "backup vm"

In the current TSM b/a client for windows (with VMware tools), there is a "backup vm" command that will perform full image or file level backups for VM guests. There is no option to perform an archive (file level or image) We need the ability to a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

DS8K Configuration menu should not allow the IPv4 and Gateway IP field to use the same address

DS8K Configuration menu should not allow the IPv4 and Gateway IP field to use the same address. This creates the potential for a DS8K HMC to assume the IP address of a gateway/router on the network.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under 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