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Spectrum Snapshot support for IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption on DB2 databases

Spectrum Snapshot is NOT supported on DB2 databases when IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption has encrypted the database
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

different failoverhladdresses for nodes

there is only the option to set failoverhladdress globally. but if there are tsmnodes coming through many different interfaces, there is no way to set this for each interface or at least node-specific
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Allow Spectrum Scale Management API to handle POSIX ACLs

The Spectrum Scale Management API currently can not manage POSIX ACLs, only NFSv4 ACLs. We'd like to be able to manage both kinds of ACLs in our system.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

« Key Management Interoperability Protocol » (KMIP) support

We would like the IBM TS4500 library to support the KMIP protocol in order to use a different encryption key manager than the IBM SGKLM software
6 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Distribution via Package Repository

Today Spectrum Scale ships self extracting images. These are large, usually only 25% of the image content is used, and a special install procedure is needed.These images are quickly superseded by new ptf versions, sometimes certain versions are wi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Scale GUI Statistics Save, Generate report, and Forward Selections

Provide the ability in the Scale GUI Statistics monitoring page to save custom settings for easy re-use and ability to forward these selections to the Dashboard page for use in a monitoring widget. There are pre-set statistics monitoring selection...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Auto-cleanup /tmp/mmfs

Over time /tmp/mmfs fills up will diagnostic data from gpfs.snap. Provide a facility to cleanup those files automatically based on age.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

IBM Storage Protect Plus Future Version can be able to Backup and Restore VM on cross Hypervisor platform as like Hyper-V to VMware to Hyper-V.

It can be useful a VM can be restore without require any connectors or convertors to change the VM disks from one hypervisor to another hypervisor and to reduce more admin tasks. In our environment we have IBM SP and SPP to compete with other Back...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Webclient for 7.1.8 and 8.1.2

please know that in the Healthcare and Hospital environment, the Web Client is very highly used, and extremely important. Your statement that the Web client is not needed because the BA client GUI is available and can be used. However, you fail to...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration