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Option to disable security notifications

We need an option to disable "security notifications" entirely.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Volume performance & capacity metrics in native UI.

These are now considered basic features in competitive products. Over the last couple years it has become a concern with clients as to why we still don't have these: ----performance----1. Real-time volume performance statistics in native UI.2. Rea...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Increase online (in memory) audit log entries

Increase number of audit log entries visible in the GUI.In the SVC code the number of online (GUI) visible audit log entries has been limited to 500. (I cannot remember in which code this started as this has been higher before, at the moment we ar...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Copy Data Manager Support for Oracle ACFS on AIX and Linux

Oracle's new filesystem implentation is called ACFS, taking over ASM. CDM supports virtual ACFS on Windows. Need to have support for physical filesystems on AIX and Linux supporting ACFS
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

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

Safeguard Copy to S3 storage

Allow the ability to schedule safeguard copies off site to S3 storage either on another platform or in the cloud.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

SI/SC don't show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices

Today, neither SI nor SC show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices, only the physical WWPN. Since the direction is to use NPIV only for host attachment, this prevents important information related to host connectivity being visible.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Ability to name backup

Customer needs the ability to specify the name of backup jobs.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Mount retention for sequential file volumes

Currently, mount retention is disable for sequential file device classes. In many cases in real-world use, this can cause a storm of mount/unmount operations if any migration, reclamation, backup, or restore processes rapidly cycle between a handf...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

AWS PrivateLink Endpoint support for S3

It is desired to use an AWS PrivateLink endpoint to access AWS S3 as an object storage provider to Spectrum Protect Plus, with AWS S3 region support. To do this, it must be possible to register AWS S3 to Spectrum Protect Plus by specifying an arbi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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