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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

IBM Storage Virtualize Plugin for vSphere features missing

The VMware plugin for Flash Systems missing the following operations which are publish in :https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248505.pdf - IBM FlashSystem and VMware Implementation and Best Practices Guide - Marking the hosts as flash I...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

GUI improvement to policies

1. Often we see that if the policy gets slightly complicated, the ILM editor bails out, and only gives us the possibility of editing the policy file directly. The policy editor should be much more robust, so that it can be used for more than the s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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

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.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Provide a configurable session timeout for the TSSC web management interface.

Security standards are further restricting the timeout of sessions for admin interfaces. Reduces risk.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Allow multiple REST sessions per user

We wrote some checks for an external event management system that query several parameters and events from the storage arrays through REST API. As we have multiple checks and a clustered event management infrastructure we sometimes have 2 or more ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Need the ability to seed initial data from source vSnap to target replication vSnap

A customer has requested the ability to physically send a copy of data on external media from the source vSnap to the site that has the target replication vSnap for ingest rather than send the data over their network. They would like to do this to...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Adjust CSM panel scroll windows with Browser window size and support filters

There are a couple of panels in CSM GUI which do not adjust their scroll list window size to the browser window size. This results in small CSM scroll windows which may contain very long lists although there is plenty of white space in the browser...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

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