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Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD"

Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD".We understand we can intentionally avoid this by recreating the certificate manually,but it will cause the operational load to occur.Our customer want us to make ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Functionality already exists

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux).

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux). As stated in TS003354444 it does not work though we follow the instructions in "https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/c_clu...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly Currently we need to create with multiple SLA for different schedule of daily, weekly, monthly.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need an option to "backup" or "export" custom SQL-reports in "Spectrum Protect Operations Centre"

Some customers have many custom sql reports in their OC, so we need an convenient option to export or backup those sql-reports either in one single file (like .xml) or export single reports to single files (and consequently are able to import them...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Allow more than 1 IBM Storage Insights instance to monitor IBM Storage devices using Call Home with Cloud services

There are companies that provide data hosting services that manage IBM storage devices for other companies, and there are times both companies want to monitor the device using IBM Storage Insights. If both the company that use the device and the c...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude node support on Install and deploy

In an heterogene world of scale cluster we had more an more the requirement to install new nodes with higher versions of scale because of some dependencies of OS-Kernel-Levels. (ABI changes as example). We want the same function like exclude suppo...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude support on install and deploy

In the heterogene world of scale cluster we see more and more an requirement to put different versions of scale because of new deployments of OS (rhel) and other decisions and dependencies.The current toolkit installation missed this feature to ad...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Faster fiber channel interfaces for LTO drives

Recent generations of proprietary IBM tape formats (TS1160 and TS1170) support 16 Gbps, we would like to see LTO drives support this as well. 16 Gbps (or faster) Fiber Channel interfaces are necessary to get full performance from modern LTO drives...
10 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Planned for future release

Ability to replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP

Ability to Replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP, not only new backups that happens after the replication is setup (as happen today).
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Protection copy for On-Premise Cloud Containers

On Premise Storage like Cloud Object Storage (COS) and other vendor solutions gives the ability, to use modern data protection with on premise cloud storage pools. In the age of cyber crime and ransomware, it is very important and a business requi...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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