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SPP multi-domain support

Please provide multi-domain authentication to SPP.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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

TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range of tapes

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a TMC Delete state so that the volume will not being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range.
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Planned for future release

IBM Spectrum Protect: Task Time Preview and Progress Indicators

There are currently no preview or progress indicators for server and client related tasks. It would be good to get an indication of how long a task will take before kicking it off as well as an indication of how much time is still remaining for th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Control: View Easy Tier Load Setting

Need the ability to see what the Easy Tier Load value is for SVC mdsisk.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

Implement console mode installation to support clean server installations

Remove the need for using a "GUI" server for Spectrum Protect Server. When running the SP on a true server instance, then only allowing GUI install is limiting our environment and also makes installation more complicated due to VM/OS itself but a...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

Support vSnap migration by re-mapping the back-end volumes to another server

Support a vSnap migration from back-end disks from one server to a different server by re-mapping the back-end volumes to the new server
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ganesha_stats improvements

It's difficult to troubleshoot client related issues from the CES cluster. Need a command that output a list of the top clients by amount of operations on the shares. It's necessary in case of situations when clients create load that impedes the r...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support of UEFI Boot Mode for VMs

Lack of Support - IBM Storage Support for Microsoft VSS VDS IBM Storage Support for Microsoft VSS VDS does only recognize a VMware VM as a VM when this VM was booted in BIOS-Mode. A VM booted in UEFI-Mode will not recognized as a VM.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support of Sharedmemory feature for TSM (ISP) DB Backup on Windows Platforms

Dear Dev. team,Please incorporate support of sharedmemory feature for TSM DB backup on Windows Platforms.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration