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Support custom URL for S3 storage integration with AFM

We would like AFM COS S3 integration to allow custom URLs for the S3 storage. The product we use to provide S3 storage requires custom URLs, and as such, currently can't be integrated into AFM. Any user groups who also have custom URLs for S3 stor...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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 TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Need to protect Encryption Key Servers with Dual Control

In case a hacker can login to TS4500 web GUI via admin user. He can do several stuffs like switch on Library-managed encryption (LME)? Data is encrypted and can no longer be processed if the hacker drops the key server. Please protect the Encrypti...
4 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Command to force Dynamic Pagepool to shrink to minimum size

When utilizing the dynamic pagepool during IO operations, the pagepool automatically expands until possibly reaching its maximum allocated size. It then remains at that level, even after the IO operations have completed, until additional memory (m...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Virtual Host Style addressing support for CES S3

Virtual Host Style addressing (https://bucket.my-s3-server.com) is the preferred S3 addressing option for AWS - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Scale CES S3 does not support this out-of-the box yet. Wi...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Provide a secure erase certificate when the "chdrive -task erase" command is ran

Securely erasing storage media is more important than ever. While IBM does provide whitepapers explaining that the "chdrive -task erase" command does a NIST 800-88 secure erase, there is no documented confirmation after the fact for record keeping...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Increase limits and remove restrictions for NVMe over Fiber Channel

Increase the limit of "NVMe over Fiber Channel hosts per I/O group = 16", (maybe to double that) and REMOVE the Volume Mobility restrictions #5: "SCSI only. Fibre Channel and iSCSI supported. NVMe not supported." IBM has been touting the usefulnes...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration