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    customize commandapproval commands

    SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Schedule a snapshot every 4 weeks via GUI (currently only available via CLI)

    A snapshot schedule created via GUI does not allow this schedule: mksnapshotpolicy -backupunit week -backupinterval 4 Using the GUI, only once a month can be set but customer needs every 4 weeks for his schedule. He primarily uses GUI, rather than...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Initiate a SafeGuarded Copy from the GUI without using policies (currently only CLI)

    Customer needs a way to initiate an adhoc SGC of a volume. This is currently only possible via CLI. Use case: their SLA’s include taking an immutable snapshot and keeping it for x days (up to a year), immediately after certain changes. Examples in...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    non-destructive later-on encryption activation

    When customers decide not to buy encryption enablement right away with a new FlashSystem but later on because eg they get this as a new requirement or change in corporate policy, they need to destroy all data on the system and re-create arrays to ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

    We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

    Enable AWS STS support

    Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Support Flexgroup volumes in containerpools

    NDMP Backup of Netapp-Flexgroup should be supported to container pools. Flexvol is supported and working, but Flexgroup are denied because of different magic in the header (EA6C vs. EA6D).
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Perform Remote Pair FlashCopy on *all* Metro Mirror pairs in a parallel PPRC setup

    We have four site replication where the primary devices have two targets (Parallel Metro Mirror). Currently Remote Pair FlashCopy (pmir) is only able to be enabled on one leg. When HyperSwap is enabled on the leg without pmir enabled, a FlashCopy ...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Enable a "read only" system administrator for monitoring purposes

    With the introduction of multi factor authentication in Spectrum Protect, administrative access to the software is significantly increased. However, an administrator without MFA must be used for automated monitoring activities. And for the executi...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Capability to throttle vdisk by defining a goal response time (possibility to delay an I/O to a value)

    There are an increasing number of clients asking for the functionality of specifying the goal response time of a volume (vdisk), so that it doesn't go faster than this goal and does not use resources that could be used by other volumes.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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