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Add support for Rapid7 SIEM

Storage Defender SIEM integration obviously provides many benefits.Rapid7's InsightIDR SIEM is used for our Production SIEM. Please add support for Defender to integrate with InsightIDR SIEM, or at least the capability to receive and log events se...
28 days ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Please, enhance ISP command to add option for does not check affinity IDs.

Why is it useful? We expect to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media] (LTO) to another NAS storage system.However, this operation is not possible and we receive error code "ANR1766E" because the...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

GUI should be quick to load overview pages, and defer the output of slow commands

F.ex. on the GUI "pools" page, we're experiencing several minute loading time on large systems. It should not be acceptable that it takes this long to load any of the pages, particularly not the initial overview pages. Rather the GUI should only s...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP FOR PROTECT PLUS

One of the most asked feature by business partners and customers is support of Active Directory backup and granular recovery of AD with Protect Plus. Almost every our competitor has AD backup granular recovery of its objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

After TLS certificate expires, IBM Spectrum Protect Server automatically renews the previous certificate distributed to nodes.

IBM Spectrum Protect Server TLS certificate expires 10 years after the server instance is created. Immediately after the expiration, all client nodes are unable to connect to the server. One of my customers provides a backup service in their priva...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

RegionalDR and S3 Acceleration at the same time

Clients who are building data lakehouse , are also building DR capabilities. Fusion HCI, Watsonx and CEPH are bringing turnkey experience Fusion HCI 2.7.1 wil bring Regional DR capabilities.Fusion HCI brings alot of benefits to Watsonx.data, inclu...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Allow data-lock cloud containers to be reclaimed

I would like to have the feature "Reclaim Containers" available when using datalock stgpools. Looking at my SPOC console, I will have 263.3TB of data that could be reclaimed from my cloud storage pool. Since this is not supported because I'm using...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IO Performance Reporting/Tracking of Specific Applications / HPC Jobs

Add the ability to provide application / job specific performance monitoring and reporting (mmperfmon and GUI). Many HPC customers would like the ability to trace IOs from the filesystem perspective with the granularity of the application/job. Thi...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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