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Support for HCL Domino Server 14

HCL Domino Server 14 has been available for some time now. The Storage Protect Agent for Mail/Domino does not yet support this version. Since we and various other customers are due to update their HCL Domino servers to version 14, I would like to ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

support volume groups in ownership groups

When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

lsvdisk command has vdisk_UID as parameter option

Have the ability to isolate an lsvdisk based upon the vdisk_UID without the need to include -filtervalue. As it currently stands in the documentation you can use object_id and object_name to get the specifics of a vdisk, the proposal I am making i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Allow dynamic creation/modification of a DRS recovery profile

Let's imagine that the customer is having a changing environment that requires frequent update of its recovery profile, having a way to create,update,modify,delete recovery profile or its content would be helpful. The client , would then be able t...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

Update OpenSSH in the SpecV / FlashSystem firmware to allow the sftp protocol instead of scp

Our managment servers are based on RHEL. Which will be upgraded to RHEL9 soon. With RHEL9 the standard scp is depreciated.. (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openssh-scp-deprecation-rhel-9-what-you-need-know) With updating the openssh version within...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

Allowing for hybrid connections in the same Diamondback (SAS/FC)

Allow for customer to order a Diamondback with a hybrid of SAS and fiber channel drives. Allowing a single Diamondback to support different type of workloads/connections vs requiring two Diamondbacks to achieve this.
about 1 year ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Planned for future release