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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.
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 0 Planned for future release

Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

FS9500 - inbound CHAP where we can manipulate the secret per host bases

ISCSI- Mutual Chap authentication Inbound: We see option to set system wide chap secret authentication for ISCIS attached hosts. Currently IBM offering System wide chap (being configured via chsystem CLI) is used for two way chap authentication wh...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Support Windows 2019 on the SP B/A client

More and more customers are asking about when we will support Windows Server 2019 to be able to install the B/A client.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

need tape disaster recovery ability for Spectrum Protect Plus

Enable Spectrum Protect to be a disaster recovery target for Spectrum Protect Plus.This would provide tape based disaster recovery of Spectrum Protect Plus.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Client Supend/Maintenance Mode

Add the possibility to put a GPFS client node in a suspend mode or maintenance mode.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Provide auth and security status of connections via standard mm commands

It would useful to have the auth and security status of connections/mounts via standard supported mm commands (mmdiag|mmlsmount).
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Enable the setting of a VM name on clone and production restores

Enable the ability to set a VM name on clone and production restores and on move into production and clone operations for active clones (test restores)
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release