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Query files content of a container

Be able do list the files stored in directory/cloud container.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Adding Support of Noobaa Metrics with Integration in Zimon Sensors

Currently the existing mmces protocols has integration of metrics in the zimon Sensor Framework, but the newest one, mms3 (noobaa-core) don't. We use the current zimonGrafanaBgridge to visualize these Metrics in Grafana. The current available func...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add ACME client for DS8K HMC and DS8K Storage Manager

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the DS8K this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals...
8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

IBM SVC Port Intelligence

One of the IBM SVC port had errors (numbers loss of frames, buffer credits, link loss event). This caused one of the disk on windows server 2016 to go offline. THe request is to built an intelligence in SVC product itself to disable the port if th...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Restart failed backup

SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Disable ransomware alert for specific nodes

Ransomware detection is always on, and cannot be disabled. Every login has a pink banner because 5 nodes are never near their long-term average for size and dedupe ratio.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

eMail encryption for Operations Center

As security requirements increase, it is our company policy to send encrypted emails with authentication. Can you please add SmartTLS with TLSv1.2 and authentication (port 587/tcp) as feature on Spectrum Protect Operations Center ?
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

authentication and authorization mechanism for application groups and general groups

Customer is India's Largest MSP and deployed A9000R with Spectrum Control. Customer requires functionalities which is part of Public Cloud Feature.(i) Managing Domains of A9000 (HSM) through Spectrum Control as single Console would help them to ma...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

SMB transparent failover

The current design only support NFS transparent failover and SMB is not. Without SMB transparent failover, end user need to interactive with failover session. Customer hope to support CIFS session reconnect automatically during CES FO/FB. This can...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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