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CSM scheduledtask based on calendar day

We need scheduling at specific calendar day/timeSelecting single or multiple day
about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

TS7700 SSL cetficate for AWS

My client would like to use a certifcate for the SSL connection to AWS S3 buckets.
11 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Needs more information

Add support for Google Cloud Storage buckets defined with Customer Managed Encryption keys

Support for Google Cloud Storage (GCS) as a cloud container pool is currently restricted to using Google Managed Keys (GMK) for encryption on the buckets on the Google side. The use of Customer Managed Keys (CMS) is a common mandatory requirement ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Better Information for Storage Rule

If we run any Storage rule like Replication or Tiering of data between pools and we see it failed of some reasons. A natural way to investigate a issue is to run the same command manually using wait=yes and in that way get more information, but ve...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients

Allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients. It would allow automatic expiration of older versions. This would help implementing smooth S3 backup solutions for many modern "cloud" databases and similar tools, like Postgres, MongoDB, Hashico...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP.

Hi Team, Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP. Security concern the AWS services to access via VPC only. Can you please update is IBM working development?. If yes, which version VPC option is available?
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

SnapDiff to tape

Add feature to make incremental/differential backups of Netapp volumes to tapes base on changed blocks. A New Backup Architecture for NAS Systems - SnapDiff V3 (netapp.com)
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

DB backup not running on all nodes in oracle

we have customers with oracle DBs that have some DBs registered in all nodes but that are not running in all nodes, and the SPP cannot backup these DBs, it is necessary to make the SPP capable of doing so
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Needs more information

This is info is related to IBM Spectrum RTM tool license usage. Currently we could only able to monitor Lmstat and RLM license usage via RTM monitoring toll. Here my request is we need to be added all the types of license daemon services and need to be fetch license usages via RTM tool.

Because currently I could not able to add this Lsdyna and Matlab license server information and could not able to fetch this license usage. In case if we add this option, then LSF administrator and uses will get more gain. Currently we could only ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Needs more information

Improper Session Management - Simultaneous Sessions

This issue is related to same user opening multiple sessions either with different browsers and different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Needs more information

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