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    Provide a way with BVIR "Physical Volume Status Information" to display whether a PVOL has the RELABEL flag set or not

    We quite often use the LI REQ, LVOL, RELABEL command since we are moving the COPY EXPORT VOLSER Range from Cluster 4 to our new Cluster 3. However, due to timing issues sometimes the affected PVOLs are going into readonly (internal/expternal label...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Add additional fields to BVIR "Volume Status Information" report

    Within the TS7700 when customer are moving to a new tape drive generation or to a new media generation they are often introducing a new pool and reclaim the existing data from the existing pool to the new pool. This is a common and IBM recommended...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Client needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.

    Customer's Capacity plan Team needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Activity report and Security Posture Report grouped by Business

    Would be good to have customizable reports on Defender to have the ability to build custom reports . The prime use case I see (customer asked for) is to be able to provide a report for a given business application which woud be composed of VMs and...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

    This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    SP PLUS support for SHAREPOINT witH SQL

    Customer would like to have an application support for SHAREPOINT environemnt, backing up the VM with SP PLUS.SHAREPOINT is used with SQL 2017 database.Not yet with O365.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Ability to create empty structures in S3 Object Client

    We would like to be able to create empty object structures in S3 buckets i.e.:aws s3api put-object --bucket test --key dir/myfolder I was told by support team, that this is currently a limitation to the MinIO used for the object agent.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Support for OTP or MFA

    Ransomware is a hot topic and everyone need to secure there Backup environment as much as possible. We need to find as many features as possible to make a ransomware as hard as possible. By using multi factor authentication is one thing that could...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Enhanced possiblities for defining password policy in SPP

    SPP does only allow to configure a minimum password length within the Global Preferences. Setting further options like: - minimum number of upper case characters- minimum number of lower case characters- minimum number of special characters- minim...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus - Support of Oracle Database on Windows Server

    Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Windows servers.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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