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    Enable file and folder-level recovery of objects from AIX systems archived on IBM Storage Protect by using the IBM Storage Defender Data Protect object agent S3 interface

    Currently, file and folder-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archives AIX objects to IBM Storage Protect using its S3 tape storage interface. We request an enhancement to the...
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

    Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data Prote...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Support for SI and SI PRO entitled storage sytsems in ONE instance - with SI PRO capabilities switched on / off according to system entitlement

    As of today, we cannot have a mixture of SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems in one environment. SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems can reside in one SI instance, but to exploit SI PRO capabilities, a second SI instance for SI PRO entitled ...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Add setup options for secure, encrypted and authenticated E-Mail notification for Tape Library TS4500

    For security reasons we need the possibility to send authenticated and encrypted (TLS) alert emails with a predefined email address as sender. Unfortunately only authentification for emails is currently configurable.
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

    ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

    Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Proxmox plugin for FlashSystem

    Plugin to improve current interop limitations with Proxmox (clustered host access, maintain VM snapshot ability, thin provisioning)
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    To use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication as primary storage pools.

    We want to use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication, as similar as for DEFINE STGPOOL (Define a retention storage pool) with cloud device class, but for normal primary stgpool. Compression and encryption should be possible, but wi...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

    AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

    new command to q options which differ from their default value

    There are many options available for the SP server, documented as well as many undocumented server options. All have default values, some/many are adapted to specific environments. A new command would be helpful which displays all the options whic...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

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