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TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
1 day ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Policy Based Replication - Secondary Volumes Always Offline

My customer is planning to tech refresh their existing SAN Storage and IBM is one of the 4 vendors participated in the POC. With customer existing DR operations, the storage DR volumes are always at Online status, hence the volumes are always moun...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Allow "modify volume capacity" of a volume in a volume group with PBR applied

For the moment, it is not possible to modify (in our case extend) a volume which is in a volume group where a replication policy is applied. This has a huge impact if we simply want to extend a volume (to increase a datastore capaciy for example)....
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of volumes into a volume group with replication policy assigned

We sometime need to rename a volume because it makes things cleared when you want to add other volumes or other vlume groups. For the moment, as soon as a policy is applied, the rename of a volume inside a volume group is not possible. Could you p...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions.Supplemental to idea TS77-I-166.
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

REST-API request for GET a list of defined LDAP Users/Groups and their roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query detailed permissions of authenticated users. Which LDAP Users/Groups are defined ...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

REST-API request for GET a list of permissions for roles/custom roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query which user/group has which role. All return formats should be in JSON and YAML fo...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap.
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

pseudo admin to administer and manage the box/users without access to destructive commands

We would like to have the ability to create a pseudo admin userid which has the ability access and manage all settings on the ds8ks and perform user account management but without all the other powerful options / dscli commands commonly used by th...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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