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Support for proxy for Spectrum Control

Support SC (Spectrum Control) work thru Proxy. Lot of times i
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

Customer-managed encryption keys with KJM support in GCP Buckets

Why is it useful? Enabling CMEK support with KMS for GCP buckets provides Enhanced Security, Compliance Requirements, Key Rotation and Management, Data Sovereignty Who would benefit? Banking Customers, Customers with strict encryption requirements...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

AIX v7.3 support for IBM Spectrum Control Server

Add AIX v7.3 to the list of OSs supported by IBM Spectrum Control Server.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Is Spectrum Control available for a cluster installation

We need for Spectrum Control 5.4.6 cluster support for Windows 2019 for an cluster failover event. Currently we are using 2 SC Instances on Windows 2012 Its planned to do a server refresh and we want to know, if SC could be installed in a clustere...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Extension of the Table "Replicationview" by the columns batchesQ and batchesD

Hello, the command "show replication" shows the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD".Is it planned to implement the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD" in the table REPLICATIONVIEW?Currently I can't find any columns in this table regarding this. En...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Storage Rule Exclude Function

Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names

Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Fusion HCI Cloud Provider for OpenShift IPI

The idea here is to extend HCI+HCP platform strategy here to support IPI compatible OCP deployment. Current list of IPI supported platforms (circa OCP 4.14) By "IPI compatible" I mean HCI systems can be consumed by the openshift installer in the s...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 3 Under review

Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review