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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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

TS4500 improve Remote Authentication (LDAP, RACF) support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor authentication is a major component of security policies in many companies. TS4500 supports remote authentication with MFA when used with Duo (authentication proxy). However, this client has already invested in an MFA infrastructure t...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Retention set enhancements for multiple copies and replication

Currently creating multiple copies of retention sets are restricted. Firstly, you cannot create multiple (tape) copies of a single retention set. Secondly, if a node is replicated between multiple SP servers, you cannot create a retention set on b...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus direct archive to on-prem COS

Archive in an SPP SLA policy is only available to cloud services (ICOS, AWS, etc). I am requesting that the archive function in SPP allow for S3 connectivity to on-prem COS. I have a similar request in ID#151074.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Reports need to include graphs

We simply need the ability to include the displayed graph that is visible on dashboards or performance reports when we choose the "Create Report" option. All of the reporting options are currently text based and can include an over time reports bu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes and values.Service request number: 10814,999,846
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

SPP: Implement different "log options" for serviceability

SPP currently only offers one "log download" option, which always includes the vSnaps & VADP logs and a lot of SPP GUI logs.In larger envirnments with a few vSnaps & VADPs, we've seen those support packages grow to 6GB and take longer than...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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