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    cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

    In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Support for Active Directory Item restore

    Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Directory Container Erasure Coding

    I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

    For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Multi-namespace Crash Consistency / Consistency Groups

    Today, Consistency Groups as supported with Scale/GDP ensure that all Pods in a single namespace can be snapshotted in a crash-consistent way. A financial services customer is asking for consistent snapshots spanning PV/PVCs in separate namespaces.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names

    Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Support for proxy for Spectrum Control

    Support SC (Spectrum Control) work thru Proxy. Lot of times i
    about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

    AIX v7.3 support for IBM Spectrum Control Server

    Add AIX v7.3 to the list of OSs supported by IBM Spectrum Control Server.
    about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Enhance RestAPI to allow for control of AOS

    AOS is a mission critical remote support tool. Activation of AOS creates a threat vector therefore it should only ever be activated as needed and closed when support if fulfilled. Given the need for support could occur anytime, and the staff avail...
    about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Iimprove the Event Notification alert emails sent from FlashSystems

    As reported: Our FS7200s are configured to send us email alerts whenever an event occurs on the system, including Warning level events, Informational level, as well as Error level. On a given day we may receive anywhere from 5 to 15 alerts of uniq...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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