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Allow specification of CN in LDAP authentication for TS4300 login

Currently when configuring LDAP authentication on TS4300 the user CN is fixed cn=xxxxx.Modern authentication servers use different common names than "CN" - like "UID", ... Please add ability to specify which User CN is being used for LDAP connecti...
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Improve documentation

The new IBM Product IBM Spectrum Protect Online Services (SPPOS) have support to backup M365 to a IBM Spectrum Protect S3 Objcet Agent Server. But the problem is that since a few weeks back SPPOS doesn't support self-signed certificate. By defaul...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Future consideration

Command required to terminate tape optimization recall

No command is available to terminate a tape optimization recall(TOR).Now you need to invoke "ctrl+c" if you have access to the shell in which the dsmrecall is running, or search its process ID and issue "kill SIGTERM". dsmq + dsmrm can be used for...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

add sort options to mmbackup

mmapplypolicy knows some command line options to control the sorting, namely [--max-sort-bytes MaxBytes] [--other-sort-options SortOptions] [--sort-buffer-size Size] [--sort-command SortCommand] Unfortunately mmbackup does not offer any of these. ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CLI to set Restful API requests limits

As for now request limits for restful API are hard-coded in SVC. See table in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sanvolumecontroller/8.5.x?topic=svc-spectrum-virtualize-restful-api. For some use cases it makes sense to set the limits higher to enable aut...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Use Volume Groups for host mapping

Volume groups have become more and more useful for new functions such as SafeGuarded Copy, Snapshows 2.0 and regently Policy Based Reprication. While some customers my not be able to utilize the new functions new or when they start with a new flas...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

allow group pools to be used as the DEFAULT placement policy

If the default placement policy. If a disk pool is allowed as the default rule there should never be a "no free space error" when attempting to write a new file.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Journal Based Backup Identification

Request is to be able to identify nodes using journal based backups from a query to the Spectrum Protect Server
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING

CSM does not support a FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING session.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

SVC Autorestart should give timer indication in UI while suspended if it is set to restart.

CSM 6.1.x introduced the functionality of session restart during 1720/1920 type errors. There is also a way to set a timer on how long the session will attempt a restart. CSM should have an easier way to determine if the session is pending a resta...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

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