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avoid external ssh access to spp container pods for ISP Plus kubernetes backup

In release 10.1.6 of ISP Plus ssh access to the spp agent container pods is needed from outside the k8s cluster (ISPP Server needs this access).There are security concerns at a customer site due to this requirement.SPP server to spp agent pod comm...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

SPP excluding disks Function for HyperV (same function as available for VMware)

The function "Excluding single virtual disks from SLA policy for a VMware job" (description see Redbook REDP-5532-01, page 175) is current only available for VMWare but missing in HyperV.Inventx needs this function in HyperV.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Increase the maximum number of independent filesets per filesystem

Currently we are hovering under 1000 independent file sets within the user file system. Even taking into account file sets that are removed when users leave site it is very possible that we will hit the limit within a year.
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

DSCLI for zVM

Hi, Working for Kyndryl France, Resiliency Services on z Mainframe, we resize our dasd arrays very very often.I think it could be nice to have the opportunity to use DSCLI on z/VM rather than a browser or .bat on windows. Be able to develop a rexx...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

SCDM - Re-use SSH sessions for IBM SVC Storage

Spectrum Copy Data Management creates new SSH sessions when running SVC CLI commands. Each CLI commands requires opening an SSH session and once the CLI command completes, closing the SSH session. Instead of opening a new SSH session for every CLI...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 3 Planned for future release

PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tape

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tapeHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed ...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 3 Planned for future release

SPP agent for file backups

Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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