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    RFE: Simplify management in allowing native user to cahnge their own password.

    Any native user that is able to login into SPP should be able to set/change their own password regardless of the resource groups and roles assigned to them
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Drop off state F-SYS after Basic Hyperswap

    Hello Support, after loading the Basic Hyperswap configuration all secondary devices get state F-SYS. This state persists untill the next IPL. CSM has commands to Suspend PPRC-Pairs ("Stop") and to Delete PPRC-Pairs ("Terminate"). I expect another...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    Azure Archive Tier Blob Tagging

    Azure Archive tier is only usable by changing blobs after write. Archive blobs are not readable, but metadata is still there. It's very similar to HSM, with a recall delay of up to 15 hours. Archive tier has a very low storage cost, and is suitabl...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect: Integration of exfs -filesystem needed, minor changes to xfs, HPE will give assistance

    IBM supports XFS as filesystem in IBM spectrum protect Linux-client. We were using this solution on our scientific-storage for several years now (Suse SLES 11 with HA and XFS (CXFS as well at our second company site) as filesystem on our disk-shel...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Automate process to deploy OS+drivers in protocol nodes

    Today approach to deploy protocol nodes is to use xcat for protocol node OS+drivers and Toolkit for protocol node rpms. This request is to provide a supported automation to deploy OS+drivers for protocol nodes.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Metro DR configuration in Fusion SDS with internal container native storage (ODF/FDF)

    Two of our largest banking customer in France are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment based on their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several data centers. This means primarily the setup of a two site Metro DR confi...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    timeout for a locked volume

    There is a possibility of a volume that is being used by a backup session be requested by a migration process, but because it is locked the migration process can enter in a "waiting for access to input volume" state that can lasts a very long time...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Enable cipher encryption on Fusion when doing remote mount of scale filesystems in Global data platform

    When working with banking clients, all communication must be encrypted. Scale remote mounts can be done by using CIPHER encrpyion but the default used by fusion is authonly. We need to allow cipher auth in the remote mount fusion is doing when wor...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Support IBM S3 interfaces provided by IBM products on SPP+

    The only supported S3 interface from IBM is "IBM CLOUD SORAGE". Technote 1087149 lists the "s3 compatible storage providers" and there is not ONE product listed there from IBM. Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale come to mind, but I am SURE there...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allow client migration from VSNAP to OSSM and back again

    Currently to migrate a client from OSSM to Vsnap storage requires deleting ALL recovery points for that client. This is worse than migrating to a different backup vendor. I have NO backups for that client simply because I want to change my backend...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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