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Snapshots on ChildPool

today you can only create snapshot-policy which makes the snapshots on the same pool the volume is already on. and in our scenario we are using Child-Pool for snapshots to prevent risks of cyber attacks when snapshots are filling the primery pool ...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

DS8000 should send SNMP message (SNM038I) in EBCDIC format, instead of ASCII.

DS8000 family is an "enterprise-class storage for IBM Z". ASCII is not the standard mainframe encoding format. Converting from ASCII to character is not an easy task. We automate SNM038I via IBM System Automation. To interprete SNM038I (in ASCII f...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

There is a need for the Call Home functionality to be managed from Storage Insights.

Customers are reporting a need (due to security teams) for Call Home requests to be fully handled by Storage Insight, not by FlashSystem arrays
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

Spectrum Scale ECE - Support 512 storage nodes in a single ECE cluster

With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our customers are expecting a single GPFS cluster and file system to scale to a larger size. We need a single GPFS cluster to surpass the current limit of 256 storage nodes, reaching...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

Support for Windows Containers hosted by Openshift Virtualization VM running in Fusion HCI

Windows containers today are supported by Windows Machine Config Operator on AWS, Azure, GCP, Nutanix and vSphere. Working with clients looking for Fusion HCI as the Openshift platform, this Idea requests Fusion HCI to support running Windows Cont...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

A seamless support for custom namespace

Currently, even though Fusion supports custom namespace, the procedure requires manual steps. For example, FusionServiceDefinition has to be patched to reflect the correct custom namespace.
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Integrate the use of RELP protocol in DS8K for syslog management

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in DS8K would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

More granulary distribution and documentation of roles

We need a more detailled way to manage the rights and roles in our DS8k environment, as we have received the requirement from our Security department to monitor and restrict roles based on Users etc. Expected GUI enhancements and display of which ...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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