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Adding Mmgt-Class to the "query event" output

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Spectrum Protect required two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems

My client needs two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. They need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems, and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined.
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Database impossible to Backup and migrate to other platforms

Before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX, my client did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect. However, IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems. Additional...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Functionality already exists

Reallowing non-root Spectrum Scale connections to Spectrum Discover after ESS security enhancements

Spectrum Scale connections are considered the most effective way to provide metadata from IBM ESS storage to Spectrum Discover since both systems are IBM-based. The following IBM video guide outlines the steps for correctly set up Scale connection...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Functionality already exists

add "estimated time to full" on the reports

The on prem version of Storage Insights has the ability to have a column with "estimated time to full", which is important to our environment, this is not available on the cloud version of the software.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Functionality already exists

Incorporate Azure MFA

The MFA feature in the Flashsystem series requires one to setup either an IBM or a Duo Security solution which is costly and redundant as most companies today have Azure MFA at their disposal. So it would be very nice if the Flashsystem in the fut...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

Add Optional Timeout Value for AoS Enablement

The TSSC home screen has a button that allows a user to Start or Stop AoS. This functionality could benefit from allowing an optional timeout value that would specify the maximum amount of time AoS can remain enabled. This is useful because allowi...
12 months ago in IBM TS7700 1 Functionality already exists

Add 'fail-back to local' authentication for Remote Authentication users

Ideally, for Cyber-Security, all Spectrum Virtualize logins should be set up for Remote Authentication, with MFA (Security Verify/future ADFS?). And the Superuser account would be the only Local account, disabled per SGC Best Practices. However, ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Functionality already exists

Log failed commands in auditlog or syslog

We are increasingly working with applications that "talk" to the SVC (and FlashSystems). In case of problems, we try to find out which commands these applications used.Commands that have failed are not logged, while this can be important informati...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

modify behavior of ldap authentication cache expiration

Currently ldap authentication cache expiration timeouts can be set via commandline:e.g.:chldap -authcacheminutes 60would set the authentication cache to be refreshed every hour. This is a fixed timer that starts to count when user logs in and woul...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists