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    Ability to Copy or Tier Storage pool data of File Device class type to S3 compatible COS bucket with Retention Lock set

    As we know it is difficult for Spectrum Protect to manage dedup extents when stored or tiered to a cloud container storage pool and is a major development work, IBM developers may think of introducing this functionality which may be quicker and ea...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Verify Management Class Contraints on Node Migration

    When moving/migrating a TSM node from one TSM domain to another, and in the target TSM domain the management class used in the source does not exist in its policiy definitions, the default management class is used. The fall back to the default man...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

    We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Additional parameter for repairvdiskcopy

    Additional parameter "-stoplba lba" for "repairvdiskcopy" command needed: -stoplba lba(Optional) Specifies the last logical block address (LBA) on which to finish the command. The LBA must be specified in hex, with a 0x prefix.
    about 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Add additional commands to IBM Spectrum Protect's command approval infustructure

    IBM Spectrum Protect currently has the ability to require approval from two administrators for certain commands. However, commands like REGISTER ADMIN, UPDATE ADMIN, and REMOVE ADMIN are not included in this framework. From a security point of vie...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Improve CLI security

    Today (TS4500 release 1.8.x.x), role permissions modified with the CLI are only honored by Web UI users. CLI users do not honor the modified permissions, only the standard permissions inherited by the original role are applied.
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Storage Defender Data Protect support for Oracle oVirt

    Oracle oVirt (bought by Oracle from Red Hat). Per the documentation, oVirt (Red Hat) was supported until version 6.1.8. Now oVirt is part of the new Oracle, but not yet officially supported by Data Protect.
    11 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 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...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    TDP for Database SQL

    ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

    Once you remove FC ports from default portset64, you are limited to 4 members per Portset. Add the option to reset the portsets so all of the FC ports once again fall to portset64.

    By default, all FC ports are members of portset64. If a user start experimenting with using portsets and then decides to return to the default, they are not able to because once you remove ports from the default portset64, you can only add up to a...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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