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    Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

    More and more applications are running on Ubuntu and we see a larger increase of request to add tape support for multiple applications such IBM Storage Protect, Storage Scale and other running on Ubuntu. But to combine does applications with a tap...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to export TS4300 logs to multiple r-syslog servers.

    Company has a new policy around certification of logging procedures. All logs are required to be sent to an external syslog repo. This is a new internal control, and the customer has asked for the ability to export TS4300 logs to multiple r-syslog...
    2 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    For security reasons, Storage Protect components should use file access rights 750 (DORA)

    Resulting from DORA, customer Finance Informatik needs to improve operational resilience. From Wikipedia: "The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), officially Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 is a European Union regulation. It requires financial en...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Improve LTO9 Optimization Process

    The (wizard) process to OPTIMIZE LTO 9 Media is a painful long process that does not allow the library or drives not involved in the optimization to be used. We would like to see an improvement not only in the time it takes to optimize the media (...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 10 Not under consideration

    Add Support for IBM Spectrum Scale SafeguardCopy in Spectrum Protect as enhanced Cybercrime Solution for the Spectrum Protect Server Platform

    In the area of cyberattacks its necessary to enhance the data-security in Spectrum Protect Installations. These attacks are coming. If we can immplement the scale safeguard Copy function in an spectrum protect installation for our GPFS Conf, DB, l...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Node replication based on managementclass or storagepool

    Currently node replication can only be issued on a node/filespace basis and backup/archive data. A big global bank has the requirement to replicate all data cross country which are older than 5 years. The data can't be distinguished by filespace o...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

    Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

    Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
    3 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    Defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives

    The evolution request on the IBM TS4300 tape library is to have the possibility of defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives. This improvement would allow to have an active logical partition which enables cartrid...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

    A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

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