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YouTube TV is a popular streaming service that allows users to watch live TV and on-demand content. While the platform is known for its seamless user experience, there may be instances where you need to reach out to their customer support team for...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

More and more applications are running on Ubuntu and we see a larger increase of request to add tape support for multiple applications such IBM Storage Protect, Storage Scale and other running on Ubuntu. But to combine does applications with a tap...
7 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Change the user running admin schedules

It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add the source/target DS8K serial or WWN in the DSCLI lspprc command output

When issuing the lspprc command, the output shows you the type of pprc and the source/target lss, but not to which DS8K you are copying to/from. In a multitarget environnement with a lss being the source of multiple pprc, knowing the targeted DS8K...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Fast replication of tape

During tape replication over a longer distance, RPO time can be quite long (>1 h). In a disaster recovery scenario, this is not acceptable. Potentially we could loose critical data.
almost 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 17 Not under consideration

SPP PLUS: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function for SPP PLUS software to read raw Exchange .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add support for SNI in TLS handshake when using TLS/SSL

When using SSL/TLS from clients, the handshake towards the server should include SNI in order to better support centralized certificate management when using e.g. SSL offloading hosts RFC 6066 specifies:It is RECOMMENDED that clients include an ex...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Provide IP filtering capability for the DS8000 platform

Provide IP filtering capability (or an allow list) that would allow customer inbound access to the DSGUI, DSCLI and WUI (HMC) for a list of configurable IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6 format) or DNS names and explicitly deny everything else. The IP fi...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

audit container markdamaged needs to update inventory objects as damaged

Any process that marks extents damaged should queue a process to mark those objects damaged which rely on the extents. AUDIT CONTAINER ACTION=MARKDAMAGED only marks extents damaged, so inventory objects stay not-damaged. Even later, if they are ac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

SPP ram requirements

Spectrum Protect Plus has 2 main components; SPP appliance (management) and vSnap.They both has high amount of RAM requirement.We are having issues when explaining this requirement to our customers as MSP. Because as the amount of data grows, the ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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