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Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events

Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events It is my understanding after speaking with IBM that these messages are captured but the system is only designed to send Login / Lo...
11 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TS7700 - Surface NTP server usage via TS7700 Management Interface

Wells Fargo has requested that the TS7700 provide a method via the Management Interface that allows them to validate they the Ts7700 is utilizing a NTP server and what the IP address is for that NTP server. NTP is currently activated by the SSR vi...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

make copies of existing Backupsets: either to go from Lto2 to lto4 media; and/or make duplicates for redundancy/DR issues!

make copies of existing backupsets to move the backupset from LTO2 to LTO4 tape media; to have reduntant backupsets(DR reasons) without having to issue the backupset command twice since the available creation time will not allow entering the same ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Increase number of dependent filesets

Guardant Health is using Kubernetes to control their workflow. They will have thousands of jobs and they will need thausands of PVCs. The projection is that they will go over the 10,000 fileset limit in 2022. The target for 2022 would be at least ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI multiple DB instances

The FCM GUI of newest TDP Version works only with default dsm.opt.The older GUI could be started with CLI Option: tdpsqlc /tsmoptfile="<path>\dsm.opt".This function is not available for flashcopymanager.exe!Please refer to my Supportcase 134...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

Provide Splunk Integration for Spectrum Protect Plus

Allow SPP audit logs and VSNAP logs to be forwarded to Splunk or another platform for easier monitoring.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide TSM Client for Ubuntu s390x zLinux

Please provide a TSM Client (Spectrum Protect Client) installer for Ubuntu on s390x
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Virtualize: Enhance MCStore Connectivity/Capability

SVC's supports Cloud Object storage pools for FlashCopy Targets in 7.8. The current method for accessing cloud object storage is via the management port on the config node. This creates a problem with scalability. The request is to enhance this, p...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Protect Stgpool target to cloud container

We need protect stgpool to work with cloud containers as a target pool.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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