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    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.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

    Add SMTP protocol for event

    For information security reasons, some companies are unable to connect out the systems to report issues and events. Most IBM Storage and Mainframe systems have an SMTP protocol for sending e-mail alerts but not in TS77700. Can you add this option ?
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Support for Ubuntu

    Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

    We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

    With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    OC nodegroup handling

    When dealing with node replication there is sometimes a need to group certain nodes in nodegroups i.e. for more frequent replication than for other nodes. I'd like to see a panel where one can create and display nodes grouped by nodegroup and also...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Query files content of a container

    Be able do list the files stored in directory/cloud container.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

    Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    SPP two-factor authentication

    Due to several cyber attacks to many companies. Some SPP clients are requiring a two-factor authentication. Overall in SPP WEB UI and SPP WEB admin UI.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

    Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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