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Add support for client encryption on deduplicated data

Support of client specified encryption (password) is needed for client side deduplication. This feature is desired to cover all types of clients from IBM - Backup-Archive, TSM4VE, TDP for SQL, TDP for mail and so on.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change the user running admin schedules

It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Fast replication of tape

During tape replication over a longer distance, RPO time can be quite long (>1 h). In a disaster recovery scenario, this is not acceptable. Potentially we could loose critical data.
almost 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 17 Not under consideration

Provide IP filtering capability for the DS8000 platform

Provide IP filtering capability (or an allow list) that would allow customer inbound access to the DSGUI, DSCLI and WUI (HMC) for a list of configurable IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6 format) or DNS names and explicitly deny everything else. The IP fi...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Add Support for Hardware Load Balancers like the F5

We are a large bank and a large enterprise customer. Not all Open-Source software is supported. HA-Proxy is one of those not supported. But we still need to Load balance the GPFS GUI. This is a requirement when hosting Scale in OCP. We need to pla...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SPP ram requirements

Spectrum Protect Plus has 2 main components; SPP appliance (management) and vSnap.They both has high amount of RAM requirement.We are having issues when explaining this requirement to our customers as MSP. Because as the amount of data grows, the ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add support for SNI in TLS handshake when using TLS/SSL

When using SSL/TLS from clients, the handshake towards the server should include SNI in order to better support centralized certificate management when using e.g. SSL offloading hosts RFC 6066 specifies:It is RECOMMENDED that clients include an ex...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

audit container markdamaged needs to update inventory objects as damaged

Any process that marks extents damaged should queue a process to mark those objects damaged which rely on the extents. AUDIT CONTAINER ACTION=MARKDAMAGED only marks extents damaged, so inventory objects stay not-damaged. Even later, if they are ac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Extend valid settings for option "etfcmoverallocationmax" on mk|chmdiskgrp commands and its applicability in general.

Currently the option "etfcmoverallocationmax" offers four valid settings "100,200,300,400" to set the maximum over-allocation which Easy Tier can migrate onto FCM arrays, when the array is used as the top tier in a multi-tier pool. It currently wo...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Dependent snapshots support (with excluding filters for independent snapshots)

For filesystems with large ramifications into independent filesets and then several thousands of dependent filesets, it sometimes becomes cumbersome to manage snapshots at the independent fileset level. Allowing also the ability to do the other wa...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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