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SPP micro version

We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Implement CRLs for SSL/TLS communications for ISP

DoD customer implementing IBM Spectrum Protect. Reviewing usage of PKI with IBM Spectrum Protect Server and Client. DoD requires the use of DoD provided Root Certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists. Currently IBM Spectrum Protect supports th...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Virgina Tech: Allow/deny lists for APIs. IBM COS in our installation lives on a campus network with thousands of untrusted users. Narrowing the scope of networks that can access the manager and data APIs would be helpful in keeping the threat posed by untrusted users accessing an API to a minimum.

Allowing creation of allow/deny lists for access to the manager API and data API, in addition to the included controls on IPs allowed to access vaults, and our own two factor solution for authenticating users would be helpful.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Virginia Tech: Leveraging the built in rsyslog daemon to forward logs is a preferable path for many users (including us!) to avoid having to deploy an external agent. Making sure all COS internal applications log through rsyslog, instead of their own loggers like log4j or other libraries, would be helpful.

It would also be helpful if the COS syslog forwarding options included rsyslog hooks to allow forwarding all logs via insertion of a rule such as "*.* @@customer.log.host"
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Virginia Tech: The external agent API endpoint consumes a customer provided tarball, unpacks it and then launches a process using the scripts in the tarball. The tarball is unpacked with whatever file ownership options were passed to tar during its creation. For some applications, this causes problems as the scripts are run as root, but the file ownership is still based on the tar file inputs. The request is to unpack the tarball with customer selectable UGO permissions.

Unpacking the tarball with the appropriate tar flags to ignore the ownership and substitute root or updating the file agent documentation to request the customer producing the tarball use the --owner=root and --group=root options may help customer...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Currently the COS manager application enforces LDAP DNs in strict accordance with the X.500 spec of allowing only OID, C | O | OU | CN as part of the DN. It would aid LDAP integrations if this requirement was relaxed to allow any valid searchable attributes to be part of the DN.

This organization identifies groups by their UUGID, rather than canonical name and relaxing this restriction would allow customers to leverage groups that don't have a traditional X.500 strict DN. I believe this is an X.500 restriction and not nec...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Enable REST API in Opscenter via Commandline not manually via Browser

Enabling REST API is only possible using a checkbox using a supported webbrowser. It might be helpful for automation issues to do this without manual intervention.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Client Deployment Request

I understand it is a requirement of automatic client deployment that clients contact the server on the address as configured by the SERVERHLADDRESS. In our environment, the SERVERHLADDRESS set on the TSM Server cannot be contacted by the client be...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 6 Not under consideration

Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Self cooling racks

We run into instances where the DC does not have adequate cooling. We can provide the customer with option of self cooling racks, such as - https://www.netrackindia.com/blog/self-contained-racks-with-cooling/ We ship the stacked racks to the custo...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

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