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Product functionality

Enable/Add SSO or SAML to TS7700 Authentication Options

Currently TS7700s authenticate using local logins or LDAP. It lacks a modern Single Sign-On (SSO) or a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) option, specifically for Entra ID. As enterprises migrate from LDAP or require more modern authenticat...
9 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

support SP server db encryption

government of canada is requesting all financial institution to encrypt the database . our current Server database isn't encrypted or not support encrypt from DB2 side.
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Add remote authentication/LDAP groups for acceptable users in dual control

Currently, DS8K dual control only works for local accounts. As an enterprise has multiple security requirements, such as centrally administered access accounts, LDAP is used to authenticate into the storage devices. However, dual control does not ...
9 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

'Storage System Maintenance Information' view: show more service details in 'Earliest Service Expiration' column to get a quicker overview.

We discussed this esp in context of Expert Care Support - show 'Expert Care Basic - Active' , 'Expert Care Advanced - Active' or 'Expert Care Premium - Active' instead of just 'Expert Care - Active'. This would help clients with a large SI instanc...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Prometheus metrics for Fusion Backup and Restore Service operations

Fusion currently exposes a limited set of Prometheus metrics for backup and restore operations. While sufficient for basic monitoring, these metrics do not provide enough detail for production-grade observability. Problem Statement: The current Pr...
22 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Email notifications for individual sessions

Currently email notifications only have the ability to send a broad range of information. We'd like the ability to set it so email notifications can be sent for set sessions so only the information for that session is sent out. i.e. the failed or ...
1 day ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Submitted

CSM Heap Usage Monitoring

In mixed storage environments where a single CSM instance manages multiple sessions, especially with SGC, administrators do not have real-time visibility into current Java heap utilization. As a result, there is no reliable way to determine whethe...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

true ransomeware detection

Gov. require all banking industry to do true ( AI driven ) ransomeware detection and defense which available to other Dataprotection software. the way we do now is by a fake ANR3692W msg without any intelligence ( our product manager Girish aware ...
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Optimizations to the Spectrumscale ansible installer for larger clusters

For large clusters we are finding that it is taking a rather long time to run. We are looking for optimization like skipping unneeded checks and/or more parallelization for better performance and minimize customer downtime upgrade windows. One are...
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics

Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics I have discussions with the clients who have high-density Microsoft Hyper-V environments. The Hyper-V leverages Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to optimize storage performance. While we can c...
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

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