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    Data At Rest customized certificate : CN should be customizable

    When you want to implement Data At Rest on DS8xxx with key servers, you can use a customized certificate. The CN field value must be the storage facility image (SFI) ID for the storage system. For example, CN=2107-75NR699. This is mandatory, and i...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

    Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Shortening Log Collection time and reduce Log size to speed up service and support for more efficiency

    TS4500 Log Collection is running more then 40 minutes and the Log size is greater than 750 MB. To speed up service and support time, we have to reduca tho log colletion duration and also the size of the log files. The idea ist to speed up and shor...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

    The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    TS7770 - Copy of TCT objects written by DS8910 on a TS7770 bucket to physical tape

    BrB - Banco de Brasilia, is requesting our support to have objects stored on TS77700 through DS8910 TCT function been moved physical tape.
    about 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    data tiering of block (ranges ) within a file

    A file needs to be able to be located partially on multiple storage TIERs, depending on various specific conditions like policy rules, selectable by ranges in Bytes or #blocks, rules for file names etc..The goal is that data within one single file...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Spectrum protect with java version 11

    The latest version of the Java that is supported with the SP for VE and the server is version 8 which means that Java version 11 is not supported as it hasn't been tested. But our customer is planning to remove Java 8 on all the servers across the...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 12 Planned for future release

    TS77 should write SMF as DS8* systems do

    Hi, as everybody else who uses TS7700, we also use BVIR (available within Tape Tools). BVIR makes it possible to get the reports about TS7700 performance, usage, virtual volumes, physical volumes, etc.. Unfortunately, right now we don’t really ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

    In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    SPP - Datastore Utilisation Check

    Please can SPP have a setting to check the utilisation % of a datastore prior to backing up to ensure that the snapshot being taken does not risk the datastore running out of space.This can then be checked by SPP prior to each VM being backed up, ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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