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    Support of X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] in SP Object Agent

    We backup up native Kubernetes workload with native Velero to SP Object Agent. Since Velero Version 1.13 the backup to SP Object Agent is not working anymore. Velero 1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Open AOS for TS4500 via TSSC REST API Call

    (I have opened this case in the TS4500 product area because I cannot select the TSSC (TS3000) in the product area in the IDEAS portal) We want to open AOS (Assist on Site) access via a REST API call to automate and speed up internal processes. The...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    extend the eventlog - type Audit 'A cartridge setting was changed'

    When a physical tape is moved to the i/O station or a drive a audit statement in the eventlog will be create. In this record are no information about the cartridge and no information about the target destination(drive oder I/O Station). The sendin...
    9 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    SnapDiff-Support for up-to-date ONTAP versions

    Could you please add Snapdiff support for up2date ONTAP versions? BA-Client 8.1.27 is supported until ONTAP version 9.14. We need support vor ONTAP 9.16. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    IO Performance Reporting/Tracking of Specific Applications / HPC Jobs

    Add the ability to provide application / job specific performance monitoring and reporting (mmperfmon and GUI). Many HPC customers would like the ability to trace IOs from the filesystem perspective with the granularity of the application/job. Thi...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Get SOBAR supported for Spectrum Archive Disaster Recovery

    We use SOBAR to backup metadata of all data that is going to Storage Archive. This is the only way to be able to recover data that was migrated toStorage Archive and recover this data when a disaster happens. In our use case we have an active arch...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Under review

    The run fix procedure schould check for all equal errors in one step

    ease of use, faster checks. If we update the backend systems behind a SVC or flash system the recovery procedure does a cleanup only for one item at a time, so if you updated a bunch of systems behind a SVC, you have a minimum of two events in the...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Adding options to loading DSCLI(DS Command Line Interface)

    Loading the DSCLI code from Windows/IBM i requires Java 8 or newer plus using the ftp protocol. When the company has removed the use of Oracle Java and replace with another version of Java for the company to use, Second, company has block the use ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 5 Future consideration

    Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

    Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    User/owner name should be again a part of the backup information (ISP Server Database table backups/archives column “owner”)

    After upgrading the ISP Client from 7.1.x to Version 8.1.8, the configuration on the DB2 Server is not compatible anymore.The instance owner as user is not presented on the Spectrum protect server backup/archive table(s) anymore and we would need ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

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