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    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.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

    parallel SAP HANA Log Backup of HDBBackint to two destinations

    customer wants to change the way HDBackint works with two destinations.'REDOLOG_COPIES 2' is slower than'REDOLOG_COPIES 1', because of the way how the logs are being processedby hdbbackint:.hdbbackint uses one thread for reading a data buffer from...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

    Allow mmrepquota -j to filter fileset(s)

    The synopsis of mmrepquota looks like this: Synopsis mmrepquota [-u] [-g] [-e] [-n] [-v] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto} | -Y] {-a | Device:Fileset ...} or mmrepquota-j [-e] [-q] [-n] [-v] [-t] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto}] {-a | Device...} o...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Include "date" command to report system-date on IBM Storage Virtualize products . . .

    During automation, lot of times system date needs to be retrieved from storage system. Currently one has to run undocumented "svqueryclock" command. Would be better if we can provide/support "date" command (or some one word variance of it) to offi...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

    Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Disable alerts when SLA has no VM

    We would like an option to disable alerts when SLA has no VM
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for Overlay-FS for disk that are provisioned per CNSA/Storage Scale

    We want to use Storage Scale with the CNSA-Implementation also with the requirement to use this for the Image-Building Process like BUILDKIT. But this doesnt work today becouse of missing Overlay-FS Support. The benefit will be to use more then on...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    FS7200, use interfaces more dynamically

    FS7200 network configuration is not suitable for our network design and security aspects.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Multifactor Authentication (MFA) support for RSA SecurID

    Many large, heavily regulated enterprises require multifactor authentication (MFA) on mission critical technology assets. One of the most popular on-prem MFA solutions is RSA SercurID. RSA is supported on the IBM DS8k product, it should also be su...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

    The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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