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Customer-managed encryption keys with KJM support in GCP Buckets

Why is it useful? Enabling CMEK support with KMS for GCP buckets provides Enhanced Security, Compliance Requirements, Key Rotation and Management, Data Sovereignty Who would benefit? Banking Customers, Customers with strict encryption requirements...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

remove systemV init.d script for DSMCAD

The current packaging of TIVsm-BA includes a symbolic link /etc/init.d/dsmcad -> /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/rc.dsmcad which results in the creation of the directory /etc/init.d if it does not already exist. This is incompatible with the chkc...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

SPF-I-3280 .. regarding this idea .. can you please explain how this function is working

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...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Extension of the Table "Replicationview" by the columns batchesQ and batchesD

Hello, the command "show replication" shows the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD".Is it planned to implement the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD" in the table REPLICATIONVIEW?Currently I can't find any columns in this table regarding this. En...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Storage Rule Exclude Function

Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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