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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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Allowing multiple node to store data

Hello! Since we are using SPVE to back up our VMware servers, all of the VMs are backed up into a single node on the Storage Prottect Server. For an extra layer of security, we've enabled the node replication on this node to send the data to AWS u...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Enhance RESTful API to be able to pull user group data

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. User group information: - Remote mappings and the roles they are assigned.
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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-...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Integrate the use of RELP protocol in DS8K for syslog management

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in DS8K would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customers to input a list of client nodes

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 queries the Storage Protect server for all its Storage Protect client nodes, does some filtering to select only supported platforms, and then will asso...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Allow more than 1450 characters into SQL statement used in reports section

Hello, Right now, we are limited to 1450 characters into an SQL statement when generating custom reports from Operation Center. This is an issue when the SQL statement is longer than that. I would like to have that limitation being removed. From t...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

We need application consistent Safeguarded Copy protect for SAP R/3

We have multiple customers that are still using SAP R/3 for a while before switching to SAP HANA. Since ERP is part of their minimum viable company, we need a way to safeguard this application.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Under review

Include VOLSER information in Cognos Reporting for Spectrum Control

On version 5.3.x and previous versions of Spectrum Control, VOLSER data for DS8000 arrays was present in Cognos using the Storage Volume Name. In 5.4.x, the output of Storage Volume Name is different (using the CKD volume name); the VOLSER informa...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

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