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    Defender Data Protect - File/Folder-level recovery of AIX file-based backups from tape-based external targets IBM Storage Protect

    Current Limitation: Currently, file-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is either unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archive AIX objects using IBM Storage Protect. We request an enhancement of IBM Storage Defender ...
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Need support for Microsoft Authenticator as MFA

    Microsoft's MFA is a very popular MFA and with Microsoft's solution compassing all enterprise needs, even MFA capability are being adopted as standard in large clients. Hence this integration is being asked from 18 months. Please consider it on pr...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Needs more information

    Assign an alias right at instance creation

    When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Needs more information

    Enhancing DCDM Error Logs with Standardized Error Codes

    In the current implementation of DCDM error logs often contain text messages that describe the issue. However, it is difficult to search for known issues or solutions without a standardized identifier. Also, it is difficult for support engineers t...
    4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted
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    Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

    Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Allow Rest Logins Audit msg to be deactivated

    If we check every 10 mins drive state, we get 144 login and 144 logout messages in the event logs of the library. The minimum would be the allow a API user creation who can only read for example and for whom one can deactivate then msg or similar....
    7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

    We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Non-blocking Storage Protect server audit library

    Today, when a Storage Protect server requires to run AUDIT LIBRARY on a SCSI library, all Storage Protect server activities on that SCSI library needs to be stopped. Means, processes and sessions already using the SCSI library its tape drives need...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address is assigned.

    Currently, IP quorums for HyperSwap as well as Policy-Based HA configurations need to be connected to the systems' Ethernet port where the service IP address is being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits having a secure ne...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

    Implement mmlsmgr/mmlsmount reversion to the display of short hostnames after nodes with a different domain are removed from a GPFS cluster

    When a node with a different DNS domain is added to a GPFS cluster (or a remote cluster mounting a filesystem from an NSD cluster), mmlsmgr and mmlsmount output shows hosts with the trailing domain (up to the point of similarity). This makes sense...
    19 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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