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Ability to alter the audit log retention period

Hello! We recently came across the need to reduce the audit log retention period of a storage scale system to save some space and we realized that the only way to do that is to disable and re-enable the audit log feature altogether. As an end user...
2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Differential alerts

Customer would like to receive not only static alerts (eg. data rate > 1 MB/sec) but also differential alerts (eg. data rate increased by more than 20% over the last week). They would like in particular to receive such alerts at consolidated le...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Provide support for Performance Graphs in the Manager for containers (buckets), as currently exists for vaults.

In COS vault mode we utilize the performance graphs within the Manager Vault page. RBC runs both Vault and Container (no mixed mode) clusters. Having the ability to view the same Performance Graphs at either at the Storage Account or preferably th...
5 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Enabling versioning and object lock on buckets in GUI

S3 Object Lock with COS is only supported for buckets (containers). The GUI to administer storage accounts, to generate S3 access keys and to create buckets does not allow setting of versioning and/or object lock. Those need to be enabled via an e...
3 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Currently there is no way to visualize "Virtual Backup capacity" , in Safaguarded copy in DS8950F .

As SGC is a the next evolution of secured backup, should be valuable if spectrum Control can give
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Option to suppress unmonitored switches

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Spectrum Control as unmonitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Spectrum Control can monitor. Add an option to suppre...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

S3 to Tape

Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 1 Submitted

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Spectrum Control

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Spectrum Control. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Require an option to update IBM Spectrum Control authentication ID from local / Domain ID to a Domain service ID ( Non Interactive)

We need to have a local user ID (with non expiring and no special character password) to install DB2 and SC. However as per the customer security guidelines we (Infra Support) no longer have rights to use or create local user ID on the Customer Ma...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Container Mode support for embedded accessers

with the new AWS S3 Object Lock functionality we're opening tons of new use-cases to COS. this is great! unfortunately S3 Object Lock is only supported on container modes, not vault modes. smaller COS systems with embedded accesser configs are lim...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

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