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Spectrum Protect for Space Management

MFA for CSM users

In the context of compliance to DORA/NIS2/... regulations I would be great to see CSM users authentication supported by MFA/2FA (like TOTP, with Duo Security, Microsoft Authenticator, IBM Verify,...).
about 7 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Scanning AIX volumes

In AIX environments (including Oracle DBs with ASM) most of the attacks are lending to AIX volumes like boot and other. It would be advisable to allow Sentinel to scan them under Storage Virtualize for Snapshot backup jobs.
about 8 hours ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

SP server receiving STA messages should write STA messages out to filetextexit

This idea is related to idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPF-I-3471 requesting that the Storage Protect storage agent should report all its messages to the Storage Protect server it is connecting to. The Storage Protect server receiving the messag...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

IAM user policies

In AWS S3, it is common practice to grant bucket access via IAM user policies. This is often much simpler and more straightforward than using bucket policies. The necessary structures have already been added to the noobaa source project. https://g...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Storage Protect server and storage agent should be supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4

We need to update all our AIX hosts to AIX 7.3 TL4 in near future. Because of this, we require that the Storage Protect server and storage agent are supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4.
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Request to identify RTD acknowledgement separately in audit log

Currently in Storage Insights it displays the ACKNOWLEDGE_ALERTS / UNACKNOWLEDGE_ALERTS actions, but it does not explicitly indicate whether the action was performed on a RTD alert or a general alert. However, the logs do include the initiator ID ...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Pool‑Based Virtual Capacity Management for SGC

Eliminate volume‑level virtual capacity limits for SGC and replace them with a shared, pool‑based virtual capacity model. Instead of assigning and managing virtual capacity on a per‑volume basis, all volumes would draw capacity dynamically from a ...
5 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

Device‑less FlashCopy at Volume Level

Introduce the ability to create FlashCopy backups at the volume level without requiring pre‑allocated physical target devices. This device‑less FlashCopy capability would function similarly to Safeguarded Copy, where no physical storage is consume...
5 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

CSM SGC backup count reporting

Enhance CSM to provide comprehensive reporting and alerting for SGC backups, improving visibility into backup health and recoverability. This capability will help operations and support teams proactively monitor backup status and identify risks
5 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

DS8000 Safeguarded Copy (SGC) offload to TS7700 VTL

DS8000 users are driving multiple Safeguarded Copy (SGC) cycles per day - and are keeping many days worth of those SGC copies on the DS8000... but many have also expressed wanting to keep 'more' copies on TS7700 VTL. For example, perhaps making a ...
5 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

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