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IPv6 Support for NDMP

NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Connect to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants Spectrum Protect to be able to connect to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key. Today other products are able to do it.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SI Pro Software Update Recommendations to List Current/Minimum/Recommended levels in More Information field

In the Storage Insights Notifications there are new notifications for Software Update Recommendations. Under the More Information field no information is shown, but if the alert is opened up then it shows the Current/Minimum/Recommended Level in a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Filter for Backup, Replication and Copy in GUI

Under Job History in the SPP GUI it would be helpful to be able to filter by job job type. Example: Backup, Replication or Copy. This would make it much easier to search for specific jobs.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add ability to alert on age of DS8000 FlashCopy

Storage Insights does not currently have any built in alerts related to FlashCopy, or ability to create custom alerts. It would be helpful for us to create alerts based on the presence of a FlashCopy set, the age of the set, etc.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Display filespace occupancy per Storage Pool in API

Display the "FSLOGICALMB" for all used storage pools of the filespace at the API "oc/api/servers/{server}/clients/{client}/filespaces".to bee non disruptive to the existing data format do this by adding a dictionary containing the storage pool and...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Encrypt CREDentialsfile

IBM really? stores credentials in plain text. Does your policy allow this?
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for CSM assimilating correctly a Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship onto an new CSM server

CSM should be able to assimilate correctly a complete Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship established and is in "Target Available state onto a new from scratch installed CSM server. Currently CSM is only able to assimilate th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

granular user roles for CSM

We need a possibility to create custom roles in CSM.Within these roles we would like to define what tasks are available for the users.For instant a user who can resync the HA relationship after an IPL. Or a user who can trigger a hyperswap and Sta...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration