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Lack of anomaly scanning integration with IBM Spectrum Protect Family

Lack of anomaly scanning integration to detect, diagnose and recover clean copies from a Cyber attack with IBM Spectrum Protect Family.Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption an IBM supported Cyber Resiliency solution.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Tape replace to skip bad file

RPQ: 672-92701 When Tape state is changed to need_replace and require_replace, customer was told to migrate their data from bad tape to a new tape cartridge. While if there is a damaged file in the replace tape, ”eeadm tape replace” will stop at t...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Support migrate and recall REST API in storage archive

RPQ: 672-92700 As we know, in hyperscale tape storage system tape archive node works with customer distributed storage system. The current interface between tape archive and customer distributed storage system is command, it is limited in local OS...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Performance improvements for LTO9 unload

RPQ: 672-95268 Both Tencent and Baidu have requested performance improvements for LTO9 unload. Since LTO9 performs low-tension unload this can be slower than LTO8. However, there is an LTO9 option with the RAO command that will optimize the LTO9 u...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Request for SMTP Settings Feature in TS2900 Tape Library

Dear IBM Product Management Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to request an enhancement for the TS2900 Tape Library related to its SMTP configuration capabilities. Currently, the SMTP settings on the TS2900 do not support...
6 months ago in IBM TS2900 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Fusion Licensing - IBM License service

Large telco customer would needs to use IBM License service service which will be used by all Cloud pak and other iBM OpenShift based license. Fusion has 4 key capabilities which are part of license VPC of worker node Primary storage (TB) bacukp s...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

SPP progress on Job's

SPP does not show any proper progress details like for other admin job's
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM API token generation without a user ID & password

Using CSM API, we are planning to manage our recovery procedures. But the major roadblock is password generation for CSM. Because of audit concerns we cannot have a static password for a ID. So, because of this, we are unable to make the procedure...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TSM-VE : better management of VM which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

The purpose of this request is to ask product management team two things:- to make available a report, for instance through the vCenter plug-in , that shows if virtual machines that are being protected by TSM-VE, have non cleaned snapshots. It wil...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Using an external Key Management System for ISP Client encrytion

At the moment there is no possibility to connect an external key management system for the ISP client encryption. The key is either generated automatically by the ISP server or has to be entered manually. We need a posibility to connect the ISP Cl...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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