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    Please, enhance ISP command to add option for does not check affinity IDs.

    Why is it useful? We expect to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media] (LTO) to another NAS storage system.However, this operation is not possible and we receive error code "ANR1766E" because the...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    ntegrated Cooling with improved filtration and airgap sealing to mitigate particulate intrusion generated by Wildfires on the westcoast.

    We offer an integrated cooling option with an air filter for the TS4500. It should be a straightforward matter to replace the existing filter with a model that has a higher rating to mitigate particulates generated by wildfires on the west coast. ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Not under consideration

    Add support for SSH Batch Mode with MFA enabled

    In current 8.6.x code, if MFA is enabled on a system, SSH Batch Mode functionality is broken (per SVAPAR-112569). SSH Batch Mode functionality is required for functionality of some external 3rd-party applications (including Galileo Performance Exp...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    REST API to support client certificates

    For a more secure connection, we would like to request that you implement the option to use client certificates for authentication.
    about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    ARM support for Spectrum Protect client

    The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes. The persistent data are backed up by Spectrum...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Future consideration

    Implement the cancel reclaim command

    At this moment, it's not possible to cancel a reclamation process through ISP scripting. The only option you have is to do this outside of the server with OS scripts. These scripts first have to retrieve the process number of running reclaim proce...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

    Need larger DB2 active log file size

    While working on HADR, a DB2 specialist noted that DB2 under SP was archiving the active log at a higher than normal rate and recommended increasing the current DB2 LOGFILSIZ to make it ten (10) times larger. However, the customer was unable to ma...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    DS8000 Dynamic Volume Expansion and Copy Services.

    I want the ability to continue to use Dynamic Volume Expansion even while my DS8886 DASD Volumes are currently in a Copy Services (GC,FC,MM) session. You have effectively removed Dynamic Volume Expansion from ever being used again if involved in a...
    over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Secure all of Copy Services Manager for z/OS via SAF

    SAF Access Currently the Copy Services Manager product that we are using, that is installed and running under z/OS, is accessed and governed by a GUI via a web browser with the appropriate IP address and port number. To logon to the CSM GUI, we pr...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus Proxy and vSnap on Power Linux

    Require support for Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap server and VADP Proxy on Linux based on Power servers.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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