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    Spectrum Protect/TSM NDMP Support for Fujitsu ETERNUS AX/HX series

    We would like to see the ETERNUS AX/HX series added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using Spectrum Protect/TSM and NDMP. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/storage/all-flash-arrays/ax.htmlhttps://ww...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    IBM SPP Should keep job logs for restores longer

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus keeps job logs for restores only 3 days. This is not sufficient for historical reporting purposes. The retention of job logs, including those for restore operations should be user-configurable, and the default should be s...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Audit library checkl=barcode should be possible even if tapes are mounted

    Audit library checklabel=barcode should be possible without dismounting all tape-drives.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    SPP integration n the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO)

    We have an urgent request from a Bank in Spain in UK to have IBM SPP integrated in the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO) We heard that there are plans fro Q3 2019 but the customer will not accept this and wants the integration to happen...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Encrypt CREDentialsfile

    Version 8.1.23 introduces a new feature that may compromise security. Store credential in plain text is not really secure. dsmadmc -credentialsfile=secretpwdfile - Starting and stopping the administrative client - IBM Documentation
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Pre-occupy system resource for GPFS on nodes

    Since GPFS is so critical, any standard way (from GPFS engineering or support) to configure GPFS on each node (mgmt., NSD, FPO and clients) to pre-occupy certain amount of memory and no other processes can use. I know that RHEL cgroup may be a goo...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Enable customer provided SSL certificate in OC

    Many compagnies don't allow self signed certificate anymore. Operation Center doesn't offer a solution to use CA signed certificate. It would be really usefull to allow customer to set it up.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    RPO Reporting Enhancement in Tape Gui

    Today in the 7700 Tape GUI.. The current display of the COPY QUEUE contains a combined sum of ALL of the "deferred" and "Family" virtual volumes queued up --- that need to be copied. My customer "Humana" would very much like: 1. Ability to see the...
    over 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Data Foundation Metro-DR - automate or remove manual steps to have to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover

    Currenty, in a Metro-DR topology, when Data Policy is invoked (from ACM), there is a requirement to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover. In our env these PVCs were orginially StatefulSets. But the source OCP cluster has be...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Compression for Virtualize is Selective

    Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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