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Support for SAP/Oracle running on AIX with Defender Data Protect

Many customers use SAP with Oracle on AIX. Since DDP already supports Oracle standalone on AIX, and SAP/Oracle on x86_64, is there roadmap to include SAP/Oracle on AIX as well?
21 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Please, enhance ISP command to add option for does not check affinity IDs.

Why is it useful? We expect to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media] (LTO) to another NAS storage system.However, this operation is not possible and we receive error code "ANR1766E" because the...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Virtual Host Style addressing support for CES S3

Virtual Host Style addressing (https://bucket.my-s3-server.com) is the preferred S3 addressing option for AWS - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Scale CES S3 does not support this out-of-the box yet. Wi...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.13 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
23 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale S3/Nooba tiering to tape

With the new capability S£/Nooba replacing S3/Swift we would use the Scale ILM capability to move buckets/filesets from disk to tape thanks to Storage Archive integration
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provide a resource to verify PGP Keys in SW Packages (e.g. B/A Client)

The SW Packages usually contain a specific PGP key to check validity of the downloaded package. Unfortunately, these keys are changed/replaced without any announcement. By this, customers do not know if the PGP key he has is valid or manipulated. ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

Need HCI Fusion Regional DR support for ODF

We (large bank in Canada) is running CP4D with IBM Storage Fusion (ODF) software on-prem in a VMWare environment. We are investigating different Openshift in a BOX solutions to run our CP4D environment. We reviewed the IBM HCI Fusion but realized ...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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