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Idle session timeout for Spectrum Protec Plus Web UI

It should be possible to automatically cancel inactive Web UI sessions according to your own settings. As it is now, inactive sessions are kept active forever. This is a security risk.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Create alerting's for any of the CPU core

Alerting on one CPU core % utilization can be very useful to detect possible issues the system As SpecV device can have up to 32 CPU core this means that user need to select and configure one alert for each of the core. As the threshold will be th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Global Copy pacing

We would like to be able to pace Global Copy so that we can make sure it does not cause any performance degradation on target DS8. So far, only a poke is available, not manageable from client. Suggestion is: a setting, editable through DSCLI, whic...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

Support for Extended ACL Propagation on Spectrum Protect BA Client Restore to Isilon NAS via Windows Proxy.

The customer opened a tickets to report that when he would restore files locally on a Windows host / proxy, it would restore the extended ACL proxy using the BA Client but when he does the same, using the same Windows Proxy but to restore the data...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Need SNMPv3 support in CSM

My customer is moving his monitoring tool to SNMPv3 and he would like to monitor CSM also with SNMPv3 so he's requesting CSM to support SNMPv3.
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

MS SQL support for Linux Host (both physical and virtual)

Customer will start tests this year with MS SQL on Linux. This will be tested on physical machines as well as on virtual appliances. They also need to backup this databases. At the moment ISP for Databases and ISP4VE only supports MS-SQL on Windows.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add machine serial number to TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary

TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary page has many useful information, including the VE hardware serial number, but it is missing the serial numbers of other components of the TS7700 cluster. Adding the serial numbers of the other components, which are ...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect (TSM) "What's New" Operations Center Feed

Spectrum Protect customers often are unaware when new versions of the solution are released and what relevant new features are added. This often causes issues as the applications and software they are protecting continues to update and requires sp...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI Customization

The way information is displayed in the FCM GUI interface, restore tab, is cumbersome to use, especially when dealing with multiple instances. We should be able to customize the column layout, and sort on multiple columns.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Encryption - tool to check health status of all configured encryption servers

When Encryption is configured on a file system. the key server must be available to allow user file access. When the key server fails, data access is lost. We need a tools that can be run to check key server health, check retrieval of keys, and co...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

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