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Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

certificate import to a truststore to be used for TCT cloud connect

Client wants to import certificate chain of its cloud server to get them trusted on the DS8K to avoid to specify them at the mkcloudserver command.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

SPP excluding disks Function for HyperV (same function as available for VMware)

The function "Excluding single virtual disks from SLA policy for a VMware job" (description see Redbook REDP-5532-01, page 175) is current only available for VMWare but missing in HyperV.Inventx needs this function in HyperV.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SI Should Include FC Ports Current Speed as a Column

SI should include the Current Speed for FC Ports in the table. The table currently only lists the maximum possible speed of a port. The CurrentSpeed of the port is available from lsioport -metrics
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Secure object information

We need the ability to store and secure object information (data in cloud) like: WORM, Expiration, Retention time etc…. As general, this function should be in TCT (DS8000) and in TS7700C.
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

SPP agent for file backups

Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Activity report and Security Posture Report grouped by Business

Would be good to have customizable reports on Defender to have the ability to build custom reports . The prime use case I see (customer asked for) is to be able to provide a report for a given business application which woud be composed of VMs and...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release