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Remove the requirement for disabling UAC on application aware VE backups

As of now the use of the application aware Exchange backup with Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments requires the permanent disabling of Windows UAC. We would like to see a different solution (that does not require Windows UAC to be disabled ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Support for Azure MFA and other MFA providers

Given the focus on security, it would be of real benefit if the Spectrum Suite of applications (but specifically Protect, Protect Plus, Operations Centre) could support MFA for administrator logon, in particular Azure MFA.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

SNMP monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

network access controlm for mmsysmon REST API

Currently mmsysmon REST API allows all inbound connections. Our cybersecurity penetration team has successfully sent network packets that caused REST API to malfunction, leaving hundreds of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state. In this scenario CherryP...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Keyboard shourtcut in DSMADMC

Implementation of keyboard short-cuts for DSMADMC (SP administrative client console).
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to remove a TS7770 Feature - FC 5271

Once a customer has a Grid installation of numerous TS7700s, FC5271 is required on all new additions/changes to the grid going forward. For a customer that is no longer using (or was never using) this feature, there is no way to remove the feature...
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Retention rule Media be part of DRM

If you are using Container Pool and want to create a air-gap copy of your data, either you do a protect storage pool to protect everything to your tape device or if you want to keep a offline copy for a longer period then the normal policy domain ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Plus support for MS SQL filestream mode

Bosch is requesting Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) support for Microsoft (MS) SQL filestream mode. SPP should support full and incremental backups and restores of MS SQL databases running in filestream mode.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow user access to remote copy relationships to be restricted by ownership groups

There is the concept of ownership groups in the Spectrum Virtualize code which allows the system administrator to restrict access to users to only those objects that are defined within that ownership group. There is a list of objects to which acce...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Flashcopy support in DS8K when using Metro mirror dual leg

Mirrored volumes between two DS8K support and keep the mirror intact when using Flashcopy. We have functions in example DSS like:FCNOCOPY FASTREPLICATION(REQUIRED ) FCTOPPRCPRIMARY(PRESMIRREQ ) SW functions in DB2 have made utilities that uses the...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release