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    Add duplicate volser tolerance to copy export merge and cluster/grid merge process

    I attached a präsentation about this requirement
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Stream Audit Log entries Spectrum Protect Plus

    It should be possible to stream the Spectrum Protect Plus audit log to a central collector, much like Syslog. At the moment it's only possible to download the audit log (or parts of it) using HTTP or the REST API.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    volume formatting visibility

    it would be great to display or at least inform the user that volumes are being formatted at creation or extension in the gui maybe allow to disable the format option in the gui
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

    Fusion B&R RBAC and self service backup and recoveries

    Customer is keen to use the self-service backup/restore to allow the app admins (admin users of particular namespaces) define and run their backup/restore jobs themselves. Currently the self-service backup/restore job definitions and job runs are ...
    2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Fusion Backup&Recovery multi-hub architecture

    Currently the backup jobs in Fusion B&R require the hub to be operational in order to run backups, with multi-hub approach (possilby in active/standby fashion) the backups would have higher reliability if there is a problem with hub.
    2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Provide support for COS WORM (and other S3 or BLOB equivalent WORM features)

    Multiple customers and BPs have requested that Spectrum Protect supports the WORM functionality in S3 offload, be that the COS specific or the general S3 protocol WORM functionality. While not specifically required it also seems prudent to extend ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    Reclaim database space

    I know that Storage Protect automatically does some database maintenance operations, such as reorganization. It would also be useful do do some equivalent of db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE LARGESPACE1 REDUCE MAX" (and/or the same for other tablespaces), to...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

    Integrate GKLM into Defender for Key Management/Monitoring

    Integrate IBM Storage Defender with IBM Global Key Lifecycle Management (GKLM) to enhance key management and monitoring capabilities. Objectives: Enable Storage Defender’s Disaster Recovery Service (DRS) to recognize and interface with GKLM server...
    9 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Under review

    Support for Ubuntu 22.04

    We have a customer who wishes to use Ubuntu Server version 22.04 with Storage Protect and FC attached TS4300 with LTO9 drives. Whilst the interop for SP suggests that this code level is supported, the SSIC for the TS4300 shows the latest support w...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Protocols - S3: subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

    One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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