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SSL/LTS Certificate revocation

SSL/LTS Certificate revocation The product should contain a mechanism which can deal with certificate revocation in a sensible way. Currently TSM will allow the use of a revoked certificate.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Health pod should show loss of redundancy

If there is a loss of redundancy for single point of failure scenarios, this should be reported in the "Health Pod"
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Get ‘storage reclaim' report to report volumes with very low / no I/O usage

During a user study with internal IBM GTS we found that it would be useful to get ‘storage reclaim' report to report volumes with very low / no I/O usage.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Assign multiple datamover to a single vapp

For large vapps, one dm is not enough. It should be possible to assign multiple datamovers to one vapp (or multiple datamovers per vdc)
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Restore single vm from vapp

Select a single vm from a vapp that should be restored. Either as a new vapp, or import to an existing. Must be available from the web gui.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Enable TSM API to access/process TSM backup client contents

We are going to implement the API to automate the commands "query backup" and "restore" as a web service with unicode support. Unfortunately, this task can't be completed successfully, although we orient on the code that was provided with the SAMP...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Add SSD 2.5 inch support in V7000 x12 frames

Make it possible to install a 2.5 inch SSD to be used in a x12 V7000 frame. This upgrade could exist of a bracket to fit a 2.5 inch SSD in a 3.5 inch drive slot.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

ICStore integrated in SVC

Requested by Customer Daimler and JCI we need an additional tier in the SVC to move data to the cloud
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

migrate vdisk to tier

We want to be able to pin a vdisk's extents to a particular tier but retain easy tier 3's performance-based balancing within the tier.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install

Can IBM repackage the C++ installer to install to the same folder as TSM along with the TSM Client install?
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

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