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log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Operations Center Reports, provide a test button of custom SQL

Today when creating a custom report in Operations Center the interface automatically sends sql select queries to the server to check if the work. This could be done multiple time during the time when you edit the report, that puts a lot of load on...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Add option to send added 'semi-preformated' text with an emailed alert.

We want to send some alerts to our ticketing system. We've put in a separate idea for that integration. In the meantime, we'd like the ability to provide semi-preformated text to alerts. If we could do that, then we can send alerts to the ticketin...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Enable wildcards on storage pools and node names on DEDUPSTATS commands

Enable usage of wildcards and/or nodegroups on storage pools and node names on the commands: GENERATE DEDUPSTATSDELETE DEDUPSTATSQUERY DEDUPSTATS
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Support for dynamic expansion of each constituent volume in Storage Scale GPFS's File System, especially in combination with Db2 PureScale on Public Cloud.

It is necessary to support dynamic expansion of each constituent volume itself, rather than GPFS expansion by adding volumes. Adding volumes has a limit on the number of expansions. The method of adding a volume larger than the existing volume an...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Disable NFS export

When having maintenance on larger file systems, it's advisable to first do a clean shutdown, and then enable maintenance mode with mmchfs --maintenance-mode to avoid anyone mounting or processes messing with the file system. This is quite problema...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

add multipath support into vsnap and vadp packages

Few vsnap or vadp are currently operated on hardware, but customers with large environments who want to back up many VMs or databases and store them on SAN volumes or use the SAN transport method. They have to take care of the multipath support ma...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Future consideration

Multisession replication of a big file

At the moment the limitation of replication over the WAN with latency and package lost is the fact, that one file can only be replicated in one session. Starting with TSM 7.1 big files are represented by segments within TSM, but still only one ses...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Make it possible to bypass tsm admin config on TSM4VE Web Interface

It should be possible to "bypass" the TSM Server credentials configuation in the TSM4VE Web interface.Once the configuration has been "bypassed", TSM4VE should never ask for it again.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration