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Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Metro DR and Regional DR for Fusion SDS (Fusion Data Foundation) without external IBM Ceph dependency

Our customer Euro Information is a very large banking company. They are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment with their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several datacenters. This means using Metro DR with synchronous...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SP EXCHANGE: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function to allow Spectrum Protect for Mail MS- Exchange to read raw .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Increase the published limts on stored OBJECTS for DAS/HPO (NooBaa)

The published limits of DAS/HPO do not meet the enterprise requirements of Millennium Partners. The client has requested the following improvements. The IBM Spectrum Scale DAS supports the following scaling options: Up to 10 TB single object size ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to create empty structures in S3 Object Client

We would like to be able to create empty object structures in S3 buckets i.e.:aws s3api put-object --bucket test --key dir/myfolder I was told by support team, that this is currently a limitation to the MinIO used for the object agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support for OTP or MFA

Ransomware is a hot topic and everyone need to secure there Backup environment as much as possible. We need to find as many features as possible to make a ransomware as hard as possible. By using multi factor authentication is one thing that could...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support TDP for MSSQl running on Linux

MS is now supporting MS-SQL running on Linux. It would be nice to do a backup of that too.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Future consideration

Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot - Support with HyperSwap Volumes

Hi Team I have a customer who is looking for support for FlashCopy Manager (Spectrum Protect Snapshot) with HyperSwap volumes. From the link below I see that it is not currently supported:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21455924 T...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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