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Product functionality

Read/Write-Test Button per MI for Cloud/S3 storage behind TS7700

The biggest challenge when setting up cloud storage behind a VTS is the network connection between the two devices. That is why testing and verifying proper functionality are essential for the person setting up the system on a VTS. On the one hand...
9 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Allow use of SSH Certificates for user CLI auth

Short-lived SSH certificates allow enhanced security by allowing authentication with SSO/MFA, limited lifespan, and multi-user authentication. Many SSH servers natively support SSH certificates, including OpenSSH. It is a hope that this is an easy...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Allow ability to have MFA enabled on DS8k HMC.

Currently GUI side is able to do it but the HMC does not have the ability to enable it.
10 days ago in IBM DS8000 Needs more information

Allow MFA authentication for the accounts in the TS7770 MI and TSSC.

Allow MFA authentication for the accounts in the TS7770 MI and TSSC. We would require MFA enabled for the accounts in the TS7770 MI and TSSC for security.
10 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Spectrum control to have Cyberark interfacing for automated password rotation (DB2ADMIN account)/Ability to enable MFA for user login to gui (Microsoft Authenticator/RSA)

This is to increase the security of the product and ensure compliance with company standards.
10 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

TDP for MySQL/MariaDB is really needed.

As an IBM Business Partner employee I support a number of clients with ISP installations. Everyone are quite in disbelief when I tell that there is no native support for backup/restore of MySQL/MariaDB databases, which are somewhat popular, since ...
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 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...
11 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Monitoring portset from Spectrum

We would like to be able to monitor port sets from Spectrum to view usage statistics for the ports within a port set, and, if possible, to generate graphs showing utilization rates, bandwidth, IOPS, and various other metrics.
14 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

failover of the VIP interface in the event of a failure of the physical network interface carrying the VIP

On the FlashSystem 9500 and 5300 series, the VIP interface does not fail over in the event of a loss of the service interface carrying the VIP or other Ethernet service interfaces. The VIP only fails over when the controller carrying the VIP inter...
14 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Allow the scan job definition to automatically handle changes to the application instance name, eliminating the need for manual updates to the scan job definition

Currently the CDM scan job definition root selection has the server's name and instance name. This condemns us to change the CDM job spec every time that the source is updated (typically at least 2x per year). The scan job will fail if this is not...
14 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

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