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Ability to create empty structures in S3 Object Client

We would like to be able to create empty object structures in S3 buckets i.e.:aws s3api put-object --bucket test --key dir/myfolder I was told by support team, that this is currently a limitation to the MinIO used for the object agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support for OTP or MFA

Ransomware is a hot topic and everyone need to secure there Backup environment as much as possible. We need to find as many features as possible to make a ransomware as hard as possible. By using multi factor authentication is one thing that could...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

Change password expiration for only one userid

Hello, We would like to know if it is possible to create a command to change the password expiration for only one userid, not for all the userid on the ds8k. today when we use the chpass command the password is changed for al the user id from the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Jump Host / Bastian Host to replace KVM in Fusion HCI Rack

Fusion HCI has pre-requisites for a DNS server / DHCP server to support the build process for a HCI cluster. In addition to which AIR Gap Installations require a local server to provide the repository for the installation content for the cluster. ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

SPP should disable vSphere storage vMotion during backup

If vSphere storage vMotion is performed during SPP VM backup there may be left orphaned VMDK files on datastores. This causes operational problems for customers
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Client is using single-node IBM Spectrum Archive EE(LTFSEE)/IBM Spectrum Scale(GPFS) cluster on RHEL 7.9 x86_64. The current version of LTFSEE is at 1.3.2.4. Client wants to relocate the *exsisting* server to other location/other network so that IP and hostname of the server needs to be changed. Local support team has asked the procedure to adapt LTFSEE for the changed IP and hostname to GDL LTFS development by LTFS RTC item #86989. Development has answered that there is no procedure to do it as of now. The server relocation is sometimes required with the relocation of customer’s server room or various reasons. Customer strongly needs the verified procedure and/or utility on LTFSEE to adapt IP/hostname change of the server asap. Note: GPFS has such procedure. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.8?topic=topics-changing-ip-addresses-host-names-cluster-nodes

The verified procedure and/or utility on LTFSEE to adapt IP/hostname change of the server asap.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Requirements and design to deal with 10 billion of indexed files

Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Protect Customer wants to build a spectrum discover environment which handles up to 12 billion indexed files we are testing Spectrum Discover with 02 Spectrum Protect servers as data sources. Only these two server r...
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Provide a command to set the "replace"-flag to disks in missing state, so a callhome is triggered.

Disks in state "missing/drained" are not treated as replaceable disks by design, and so they do not trigger a call home. But because many of these disks are indeed broken, it would be useful if the administrator could run a command or use a GUI bu...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release