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Support for Ubuntu 22.04

As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository. I think it will be a good idea to create a repository and manually upload the deployment packages.
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Submitted

Node Designation/Role Listed in mmlscluster

Any node designation that is possible with the mmchnode command should be listed in the output of mmlscluster for that specific node. This will provide a quality of life improvement when figuring out exactly which node is serving which purpose. Fo...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of DS8000. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
11 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
11 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
11 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Improve CSMCLI scripting by enabling an echo and echoprefix

In DSCLI, you can define echo on/off and you can set an echoprefix. In CSMCLI, this is still not available. When running CSMCLI in script mode, you see in the output dataset only the command response, but not command itself and you see only the IP...
3 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

add option for the tgtread status

We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
17 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
12 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
12 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

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