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    SPP progress on Job's

    SPP does not show any proper progress details like for other admin job's
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP within the Federal Market

    Within the Federal Market, we are unable to sell Spectrum Protect Plus as it uses the CentOS as its base OS. CentOS is not able go through the DOD Security Technical Implementation Guide process (STIG) to identify vulnerabilities for the OS or the...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    DS8950F LDAP works same time to AD and local users

    Native LDAP - Only one DS8900F authentication policy can be active at a time: either the basic-local or the remote authentication policy.
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Planned for future release

    SP for VE - EFI BIOS Support

    Provide a Support for proper restoring of VMware EFI BIOS. Every customer who uses Basic VMware Hardening won't use Legacy BIOS in Virtual Machines anymore. This should be a Basic Feature. For example Windows Boot Manager is nested into the EFI Bo...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    SAP HANA backup status reporting in Spectrum Protect OC

    Spectrum Protect Operations Center does not report nor is aware if a Backup is successful or if it is failed. Instead a log is created on every server which we have to manually parse and reactively report a backup failure. This is an effort since ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

    excluded VMs in unprotected list

    The Policy Overview should have a excluded VM resource in my opinion. Annoying having x number of Unprotected VMs reported every day when it is perfectly ok and should not be reported as an error.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

    Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Increase the maximum number of Safeguarded Copy captures beyond 500

    The current limit of 500 SGC captures means we have to have a trade-off between the frequency of captures, and the retention period of those captures. We have currently have a company-wide requirement for 7 days retention, which means we are limit...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    extend dependent/independent fileset max. limits by factor 10 - better by factor 40

    Extend the current limits of maximum number of dependent and independent filesets (1000 / 10000) min. by a factor 10 and best by factor 40.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Add support for TSM Server instances to be managed by systemd on Linux.

    We require support for TSM Server instances to be properly managed by systemd on Linux. This would require the creation and distribution of a proper service unit file.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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