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    eMail encryption for Operations Center

    As security requirements increase, it is our company policy to send encrypted emails with authentication. Can you please add SmartTLS with TLSv1.2 and authentication (port 587/tcp) as feature on Spectrum Protect Operations Center ?
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    Add ability to extend the expiration date/time of a stand alone snapshot, possibly by adding option to chsnapshot command

    We create snapshots of single volumes that are not part of a volume group and not associated with a snapshot policy. Here is an example: addsnapshot -volumes my_volume1 -ignorelegacy -retentiondays 3 Today, if we need to keep the snapshot beyond t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Improved TS4300 Library Security with MFA Support

    For security reasons, it would be interesting if access to the TS4300 web management interface was controlled by MFA support (Multi Factor Authentication).
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    DMS/Data Protect NAS backup: Would be helpful if Scale GUI+CES+NFS requirement was displayed in Web GUI

    Using Storage Scale for NAS backup requires Scale GUI+CES+NFS. While this is noted in the documentation, it would be helpful if this was indicated in the GUI.
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

    Support Linux on Z for DMS / Data Protect

    Currently today the Defender Data Management Service / Data Protect only supports backups of x86 and Power. The IBM CIO team needs support for Linux on Z. They'd like to see the backup agent ported to Linux on Z. Other mainframe customers may want...
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    All GM consistent groups freeze status

    Its better add the feature like alert which can be scheduled for data exposure at consistent group (session) level. Normally we can see freeze time when we run "lsrcconsistgrp" at SVC CLI.
    10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

    add a button on the policys page for email testing

    when you set up policys for alerts, there is no way to test to make sure it works..we use ops genie and it would be nice to confirm it is working
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    RestAPI access to ESG information provided by 'show su' CLI command.

    Many clients are required to report on ESG/energy use in their data centers. This would provide a way to collect this data in an automated way.
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    certificate import to a truststore to be used for TCT cloud connect

    Client wants to import certificate chain of its cloud server to get them trusted on the DS8K to avoid to specify them at the mkcloudserver command.
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

    Hello Team, Looking for some enhancement for Operation center, Security Notification Feature
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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