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CentOs as a supported OS for TDP for VE datamover

Having RHEL 7 as supported Environment, and having CentOS 7 as supported in Spectrum Protect, it is highly appreciated to enhance support for running TDPVMware datamover and mountproxy in CentOS as well.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Disable E-mail (and other) notifications temporarily

We are using a Notification alerting on CSM and it works well, however we would like to have a possibility of temporarily suppressing it when one does planned activity like increasing volume size (it requires breaking the mirroring, removing copy ...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Provide a "number of days" parameter so the "SUR Occupancy data" can be collected less than the set value of once a week.

THis is very valuable for BackEnd Licensing purposes. As example, we show to be 6 TB out of compliance, but in the last 5 days we have deleted 11 TB. Yet we still show as being out of compliance because the "SUR Occupancy data" is so far out of da...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 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

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

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

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...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for Overlay-FS for disk that are provisioned per CNSA/Storage Scale

We want to use Storage Scale with the CNSA-Implementation also with the requirement to use this for the Image-Building Process like BUILDKIT. But this doesnt work today becouse of missing Overlay-FS Support. The benefit will be to use more then on...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers， for example rocky linux
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under 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

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