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Storage Protect Family

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Connect to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants Spectrum Protect to be able to connect to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key. Today other products are able to do it.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Filter for Backup, Replication and Copy in GUI

Under Job History in the SPP GUI it would be helpful to be able to filter by job job type. Example: Backup, Replication or Copy. This would make it much easier to search for specific jobs.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Display filespace occupancy per Storage Pool in API

Display the "FSLOGICALMB" for all used storage pools of the filespace at the API "oc/api/servers/{server}/clients/{client}/filespaces".to bee non disruptive to the existing data format do this by adding a dictionary containing the storage pool and...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Design change to avoid deletion of Backup Data from a malicious hacker, mentally disturbed or very angry at his workplace

The following is a suggestion to ensure that Backup Data cannot be deleted by malicious hackers, internal Backup administrators who are very angry at their workplace or mentally disturbed. The proposal is to create a minimum of 5 Backup Admin Appr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Qumulo SMB backup API integration

Integration with Qumulo API to eliminate the long/timely treewalk to see which files/folders have changed.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Exclude VMs from VM-Backup in connection with a CloptSet

a function like Exclude.VM which excludes complete VMs from Backup serial able (not overwrites value before) / chain able / like other excludes In combination with a ClientOptionSet on the TSM-Server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Proxy server support for connecting to AWS S3 (cloud container storage pool)

Support for proxy connections when defining cloud storage pools in Spectrum protect server
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

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