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    REST-API request for GET a list of permissions for roles/custom roles

    Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query which user/group has which role. All return formats should be in JSON and YAML fo...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Unable to configure VM Backup for Nutanix using the existing solution Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

    Hello Team, Due to some requirement our VM are been migrated from existing ESXi environment to Nutanix and now we realized that we are unable to configure the Backups for the VM's using existing solution Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments C...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    Frame swap challenge when using Delayed Premigration. I call it "Autonomic prepare of frame swap when using Delay Premigration”

    Below idea is related to frame swap from old TS7700T subsystem to new TS7700T. Meaning virtual tape having a backend Tape Library(ie TS4500) and backend Pdrives/Pvols. When preparing frame swap, due to hardware renewal, you need to be well prepare...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Interactive performance charts

    My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    Shorten wait time of LEADM/EEADM Operation while LTO-9 Optimization

    Software: Storage Archive LE/EE Condition: when user run format new LTO-9 media, this kicks LTO-9 media optimization, and user use IE slot to import media to Library while optimization. Problem: User must wait LEADM/EEADM operation, such as "show ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Not under consideration

    Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

    Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

    a software reset of the library should not invalidate the status of the tapes in the IOstation

    While after a powercycle of the library or opening the backdoor and removing and reinserting the IOstation, it is correct to rescan the IO station and consider all tapes to be imported, this should not be the case, when the library is instructed t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 4 Is a defect

    Make pushing replication server info to client options file optional

    Currently, when you setup replication from one SP server to another, the client options file (on the clients connecting to the "primary" server) gets updated, reflecting the fact there is indeed a replication server and what the hostname/IP addres...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    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 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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