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    Enable Web Proxy for DMS agent communication to IBM Cloud

    Build in a option to configure the use of a web proxy to enable the DMS agent for Storage Protect to communicate with the IBM Cloud for Storage Protect servers that do not/cannot have direct access to the internet and require a web proxy for inter...
    over 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information

    expand the number of hosts that a nodeclass can have

    Clients want to add more than 1k hosts to a nodeclass.
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Stop automatically disassociation from SLA Policy

    If for example one has DNS issue (it happens) and the SPP appliance fail to resolve, lets say a specific fileshare that is associated with a SLA.Then the SPP appliance desides that this fileshare is not longer there and removes it from the SLA..Th...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    Integration between Defender DRS and IBM Concert

    There is more and more focus on security, there is a need to automatic information gathering for everything that is helpful to manage CVE and Security Certificate (SSL/TLS) . DRS is being connected to different Data sources, from infrastucture com...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Add possibility to choose SPP GUI communication IP when deploying VADP proxy

    When having multiple IPs for SPP GUI / VADP proxys, it's not possible to choose the communication IP for the VADP proxys to communicate with the SPP GUI host.This is only possible by accessing the VADP server itself and running a script "update_va...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

    Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

    We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux

    Support for performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux on SI.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Integration support for ARCOS/ARCON Privileged Access Management (PAM) for Copy Service manager (CSM) tool

    ICICI bank has 90+ IBM Storage arrays being managed by three IBM tools - Spectrum Control (TPC), Storage Insights (SI) and Copy Service manager (CSM). These should integrate with ARCOS for obtaining the password to access/work with storage arrays....
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Storage Archive to query and refer to the active snapshot location instead of having it hardcoded to the default ./snapshots value

    If the snapshot location is changed within Storage Scale from the default ./snapshots value (for instance by mmsnapdir scale -a --snapdir .newsnapshotlocation, then Storage Archive might be lost in trying to find snapshots in the default ./snapsho...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

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