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Add ACME client for DS8K HMC and DS8K Storage Manager

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the DS8K this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals...
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

RHEL 9.X And GPFSGUI Daemon Fail bug?

line 67, checkPortIsAlreadyUsed in "/usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/bin-sudo/check4iptables" This function can act unintentionally when searching for 443 ports. "checkPortIsAlreadyUsed" can act unintentionally when searching for 443 ports on the 72nd line of "/...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

File Indexing - Change default SSH port 22

For file indexing restore the SSH service must be running on port 22 on the server. Please add an ability to change default SSH port 22 to other.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Snapshot support for IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption on DB2 databases

Spectrum Snapshot is NOT supported on DB2 databases when IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption has encrypted the database
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center Security Exposure IBM-OC Administrator

IBM-OC-XXXXXX is an exposure and should refuse logins or updates like SERVER_CONSOLE. The message in the web access to OC should also occur with login to admin client, with any attempt to change the password, or any attempt to modify or use this u...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under consideration

Backup data from ESX host without vcenter

Spectrum Protect Plus requires vcenter in virtual machine backups.But not every customer has vCenter, their virtual environment only runs on the ESX host.In addition, many backup products can take backups from the ESX host without the need for vce...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Need better support to use specific CSM server IP address/hostname

Currently CSM does not have a documented way to define a specific IP address or hostname to be used for the CSM service. I found following potential places where this can be configured, but there could be other places as well: - ../wlp/usr/servers...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SPP - Support for Dataguard

We would like to use SPP to backup our Oracle Databases. Most of the areas at the city will be moving to Dataguard later this year. If this is not supported then we cannot use SPP for this.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Samba "hide unreadable = root_only" to boost performance

In most cases we need Samba's "hide unreadable" only on root directory of an smb export. A switch to enable "hide unreadable" only for the export dir's content and not for the whole subtree should significantly improve performance.
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration