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IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environment.

Incorporating IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environments would significantly enhance functionality. This enhancement would enable clients curr...
14 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Containerized AFM node

We would like to have a containerized AFM node as an option in Fusion. Also, what type of encryption would be used in storage?
27 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Implement upstream NooBaa Changes that support recent Amazon S3 server/client changes

Recent client side changes to the aws cli utility as well as the Amazon boto3 python libraries have broken functionality of using the s3 gateway. From Amazon: In AWS CLI v2.23.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integri...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add Transparent Cloud Tiering configuration and testing into the GUI or WUI

Adding a TCT screen to the GUI could include features such as: Provide customer visible indicator of which TCT port is currently active. Add TCT port throughput to DS8K performance dashboard. View/Change TCT port configurations without using DSCLI...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Provide customer access to send ping commands down TCT interface links to test network connections without needing IBM to AOS into machine.

Customers currently have no access to test network connections for TCT ports on the DS8K. Providing an interface to send ping and traceroute commands out the TCT ports to test networking will save loads of time interfacing with support to perform ...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Balanced usage of tape drive generations. Changing behaviour of librarymanager when selecting drive for tape mount.

The idea is: When using a specific format in a deviceclass, the tapedrives selection alogorithm should not discriminate tapedrives with higher capabilities In an environment with different tapedrive models (for example TS1155 and TS1160) but all d...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

Support of X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] in SP Object Agent

We backup up native Kubernetes workload with native Velero to SP Object Agent. Since Velero Version 1.13 the backup to SP Object Agent is not working anymore. Velero 1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Node lock

Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

cert_distribute.sh should allow customers to input path to dsmcert.kdb file

In the current cert_distribute.sh implementations as level 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 it is not possible to specify the path to the dsmcert.kdb file. The cert_distribute.sh script has a logic searching for the dsmcert.kdb file (function getWindowsCertKDBPa...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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