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    Proactive alert on backup policy change or modify in IBM spectrum protect server for prod

    To avoid data loss, IBM spectrum protect to Alert or warn proactively on the production server
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Stronger passwords for TSM

    Expanded character set for TSM passwords to meet industry standard complexity requirements. Most places require a password with the following: * Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long* Contain at least three of the following four categori...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    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.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Planned for future release

    Develop a conversion utility for Day 2

    develop a conversion utility for Day 2 to change blksize on all static files so when ZDMF is invoked to encrypt those files, blksize gets changed at the same time (this would mean static files remain in the clear until the utility is developed, te...
    over 3 years ago in zDMF 1 Planned for future release

    MFA Support for Spectrum Scale CLI

    We had the request to enhance the security modell in spectrum scale for mm cli cmd to support multi factor authentication (MFA). The implementation should support the current well accepted standard of RFC 6238.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Test SnapDiff with NetApp Infinite Volumes in Cluster mode

    We need to have SnapDiff tested in Infinite Volumes on NetApps cluster mode. We currently are using NetApps 7-mode, but are in the process of upgrading these appliances to cluter mode. NetApp documentation states third party SnapDiff works in Infi...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

    Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

    Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Streamline total indexed objects count

    Since the introduction of the Spectrum Protect feature, Spectrum Discover does no longer report the total number of indexed objects. We see the total number of objects that are non-Spectrum Protect specific in the respective tab and we see the tot...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    TSM VE support for vsphere 5.5

    Since vsphere 5.5 has already been released there is urgent need for support in TSM VE running on Windows.<br />TSM servers are on Linux Redhat 6.x<br />We are using TSM VE 6.4.1 and TSM Storage Manager 6.3 on Linux.<br />Compata...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

    64 bit support for TSM System Backup and Recovery

    TSM for System Backup and Recovery runs in 32 bit only mode, making it impossible to run with the latest TSM client and TDP levels. My customer is a long time Sysback customer and uses it to write bootable backups to TSM. They now must move to a 6...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

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