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Secure object information

We need the ability to store and secure object information (data in cloud) like: WORM, Expiration, Retention time etc…. As general, this function should be in TCT (DS8000) and in TS7700C.
about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Increase number of SVC Partnerships

Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

certificate import to a truststore to be used for TCT cloud connect

Client wants to import certificate chain of its cloud server to get them trusted on the DS8K to avoid to specify them at the mkcloudserver command.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 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 ...
about 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Activity report and Security Posture Report grouped by Business

Would be good to have customizable reports on Defender to have the ability to build custom reports . The prime use case I see (customer asked for) is to be able to provide a report for a given business application which woud be composed of VMs and...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

server support on windows server 2019

Windows server 2019 is widely used and users/customers expecting support for spectrum protect server and operation center on this platform
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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...
about 3 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...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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