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Supports Key Wrapping over KMIP Protocol

Key wrapping is a cryptographic algorithm which aims to provide “privacy and integrity protection for specialized data such as cryptographic keys. KMIP Protocol currently supports the Key Wrapping functionality but IBM Storwize V7000 do not suppor...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Replication: enable TCP Window Scaling

Based on information in the PMR and simulations it appears that the replication is using a fixed TCP Window size. Please consider enabling TCP Window Scaling to allow bigger transfers speeds.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Support Metro Mirror (or better all Copy Services) for LUNs up to 16 TiB

Currently DS8880 officially supports Copy Services (Flashcopy and PPRC) for volumes up to 2 TiB.IBM can support volumes up to 4TiB replicated by Copy Services submitting a SCORE RPQ.But today big LUN's in Open environments, particularly in virtual...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

TSM6.3 BAClient : Restore : Volume and number of files : estimation

Before to launch restoring with the baclient, the number of files and the total volume are checked.It's dangerous to launch a blind restore.This functionality was available in TSM5.5. The process duration was also provided.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

TSM TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time listing the restorable Items

TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time to list the restorable items for a single item restore (around 8 min). Customer does not accept it and he is thinking of to change the backup software vendor.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Planned for future release

Make it possible to set Read permission for the secondary volume of the Metro Mirror in CKD format and enable permission of b

MUFG Bank, previously it was BTMU, is planning to improve fault tolerance in the zLinux DB environment, and for that reason Mirroring Contoroller which is the function of Fujitsu DB Symfoware Server plans to cope with server failure as well as sto...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

vDisk Protection in a DTA Snapshot environment

With vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, two parameters are provided in SVC and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion of a disc. Unfortunately, this function is unusable if additional products dynamically create and delete vDisk....
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment support availability for vSphere 6.7

When wil be available support for vsèphere vcenter 6.7 ? vCenter plugin is not working on version 6.7
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add tdp client for MSSQL on linux

TDP for MSSQL needed on Linux systems
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Rebinding Archives between management classes

We have two managment classes for archiving data; one mgmt class expires archives after twelve months (temp mgmt class) and the other does not expire archives( never expires). We have a requirement to set some of the archives under temporary mgmt ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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