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    Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

    With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Add Webinterface to Debian based Linux.

    A customer have based most of their production on Debian based Linux distros (Debian and Ubuntu) with no GUI in the server install. In the BA client DEB package the WebClient module is missing, the RPM package TIVsm-WEBGUI.x86_64.rpm
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    SP4C - Enhancement to the SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to match with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

    In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

    Allowing multiple node to store data

    Hello! Since we are using SPVE to back up our VMware servers, all of the VMs are backed up into a single node on the Storage Prottect Server. For an extra layer of security, we've enabled the node replication on this node to send the data to AWS u...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Update the mmexpelnode command to accept a nodelist file for the "-N" option

    During file system issues in a NSD Server Cluster it is sometimes required to expel all nodes from remote clusters so that file system recovery can be preformed. Shutting down or stopping GPFS on remote clusters takes too much time with very large...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Update the mmexpelnode command to have a "-C <remote cluster>" option to expel all nodes from a remote cluster

    During file system issues in a NSD Server Cluster it is sometimes required to expel all nodes from remote clusters so that file system recovery can be preformed. Shutting down or stopping GPFS on remote clusters takes too much time with very large...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

    Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
    over 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 3 Under review

    Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

    Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    LDAP Direct Authentication - Multiple placeholders strings for Direct Auth

    LDAP/AD environments are sometimes complicated and users can exist in multiple OUs and Domains. To remove the necessity for an LDAP bind ID we would need to have the ability to search the LDAP forest or allow for multiple placeholder strings. Plea...
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Enable TCP keepalive also for inbound connections

    Currently the dsmserv enables TCP Keepalive only for outbound connections, as the KEEPALIVE server option describes. However, for the server it's more interesting to have TCP Keepalive for inbound connections in order to be able to detect connecti...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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