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    24H Clock needed in DP for VMware/OC

    Installing/configuring/educating users on Spectrum Protect including DP for VMware and Operations Center on a daily basis we have found a annoying drawback. In Sweden (and other countries) we are using 24H clock and we are not used to AM/PM weird ...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Inband solution as alternative to CMS

    When we heard about CMS (Client Management Services) during "Tivoli User Group" meeting in Sweden we loved the feature but the implementation not so much.The current Implementation has two huge drawbacks1) Another client on the system which needs ...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Multiple Clientoptionsets for Nodes

    Possibillity to assign multiple Cloptset to a node to build a cascade of rules. The Priority will follow the order the Cloptsets are assigned.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Need to internally archive audit logs when removing cluster data

    When a T3 recovery is performed, cluster logs for the previous instance of the system are destroyed. This means if a malicious user were to perform unauthorized changes, then do a T3 recovery, that the audit trail documenting said actions is lost....
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    2 factor authentication in the IBM Spectrum Protect Server (TSM)

    As a safety factor, we now have the 2FA (2 factor authentication) issue. An example is DUO installed on aix machines.For the TSM Server application do you have something planned for this?If so, what is the forecast for the product?
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus support for TLS1.2 for VMware v6.0

    Currently, TLS1.2 is supported for vSphere6.5+. Request for TLS1.2 support for VMware vSphere v6.0 for SPP v10.1.1.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Collapse all option desired for GUI Volumes dialog

    In the FlashSystem / Storage Virtualize GUI, the Volumes option lists three lines for every primary volume in a HyperSwap configuration. Each primary volume has a 'twistie' to close the secondary line items, but all volumes are expanded on dialog ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    optional Heartbeat to ecurep / callhome cloud

    Similar to other Products (Scale / DS800 / Storvize) We could create a Heartbeat and send periodical GDPR complient data to Ecurep. The Data could contain current versions, some usage stats, open events etc. This would give us more feedback about ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Describe how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when first using Spectrum Scale Developer Edition

    Client wants to install Spectrum Scale Developer Edition today while waiting to receive their DME licenses. Requesting documentation which describes how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when Spectrum Scale Developer Edition is cu...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Improve 'mmvdisk filesystem delete' behavior

    When deleting a vdisk set from a filesystem the command is: mmvdisk filesystem delete --file-system udata --vdisk-set VS2It responds with:mmvdisk: This will run the GPFS mmdeldisk command on file system 'udata'But it does NOT say what it is going ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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