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Update OpenSSH in the SpecV / FlashSystem firmware to allow the sftp protocol instead of scp

Our managment servers are based on RHEL. Which will be upgraded to RHEL9 soon. With RHEL9 the standard scp is depreciated.. (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openssh-scp-deprecation-rhel-9-what-you-need-know) With updating the openssh version within...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

When cases are created it would be beneficial if we could change the case owner from the default based on who is dealing with the issue .

This would prevent unnecessary updates to the default case owner when they may not be interested . When we have a large number of cases to deal with sometime it would be better to just get updates for cases that you are interested in .
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo SSl / TLS

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo client agent does not have support for SSL or TLS security keys. Please add SSL /TLS security function to the Mongo agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP monthly storage & billling report

Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Externalise Achive to tape backup

Hello, I dont know why you have created an archive to tape solution without any possibility to externalise the tapes. We really need this option fefore we are going to another solution. Regards, Nabil AMER
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Secondary control for Adminstraive schedule jobs

This is a basic request. When a administrator leaves the company or change of project, per process the respective admin ID should be deleted from Spectrum Protect ( remove admin ). However the "remove admin" command just process the deletion reque...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy Mgr to support multiple storages of same kind

Flashcopy Mgr currently dont support to take snapshots from multiple storages. We would like it to be able to take snapshots from more than one storage device. The XIV product is supporting cross-consistency groups, meaning that you can have volum...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Setting the Overview by Server on the Operations Center

Having on the Overview page of the Operations Center the possibility to filter the information by server.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management needs to support AIX LVM volume Mirroring for HA (2 separate storage devices for each mirror)

Any user of AIX with HA/LVM Mirrors will benefit. Not every AIX system can be brought up to current code and FlashCopy Manager no longer supports aix 6. I have an SAP/Oracle System with HA across 2 sites/SVC clusters. An LVM mirror is in each site...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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