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Provide a secure erase certificate when the "chdrive -task erase" command is ran

Securely erasing storage media is more important than ever. While IBM does provide whitepapers explaining that the "chdrive -task erase" command does a NIST 800-88 secure erase, there is no documented confirmation after the fact for record keeping...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DS8000 REST API New functions

Expand the DS8k REST API to include more functions that are provided today with DSCLI.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add SP Server logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX

Currently, logging to SYSLOG is only available on Linux. To properly integrate SP into SIEM/QRadar, it is essential to have logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX, too.
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Show a User-Defined Instance name at the top of every CSM GUI page

Many clients have multiple CSM instances in their environment for Active and Standby servers plus multiple instances of servers for different workloads or different storage systems. It can get confusing when an admin needs to manage systems runnin...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Enhancement Request - Automating audit operations to detect damaged extents, inconsistencies, and corrupted files in the background

Periodic runs of the audit containers command or using audit stgrule options are required to scan the chunks and detect any inconsistencies and damages. This is an intensive and manual operation that adds additional overhead to the Storage Protect...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Need web client support in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.2 or later server.

Web client is extensively used in our environment ( TSM 8.1.1). To fix bugs that are impacting user jobs, TSM will be upgraded to V8.1.3 in the near future.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 9 Not under consideration

eliminate lack of I/O on mmdelsnapshot start

When deletion of bunch of snapshots starts we a lack of I/O for about three minutes.NFS Clients see a huge delay of I/O. Related applications hanging for this time and user connections and run into timeouts (e.g http connections for apps that stor...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Planned for future release

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