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SP Server certificate management

Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime. This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers. We can script most of it (create request,...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Integration of a detailed, consolidated and exportable reporting feature for Fusion B&R across hub and spokes

I would like to suggest integrating detailed reporting into Fusion Backup & Restore, which can be exported as a CSV file, for example. In the Fusion UI and in OpenShift, some information about the applications on the hub cluster can be found u...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 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?
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Volume creation with CSI based on capacity and/or performance of target FlashSystems

Customer is finishing a PoC that will select OpenShift as their VMware replacement platform. During their day-to-day operations, they provision a large number of volumes for new workloads. This will increase with OpenShift, which requires more vol...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Allow customer to choose the amount of memory allocated to CSI driver

Customer during provisioning of a large number of volumes from within OpenShift to FlashStorage FS9500 on the back-end, hit a limit related to the amount of memory allocated to the CSI driver by default. The customer would like to be able to selec...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Integrate S3 commands into the REST API

We have an automatic workflow which provisiones storage with the help of the REST API (and not mm* commands)Since we want to automate the S3 part, we need s3 commands in the REST API. So the request is to provide S3 administration via REST API, id...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Openshift ODF compatibility with Thin Provisioned disks

Thin Provisioned disks which are quick formatted using the dasdfmt utility with ODF / Ceph are currently not supported or recommended by IBM. TP disks have been supported since RHEL 8 on s390x / System z so why not with ODF / Ceph ?
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

SP DP for SQL on windows server 2025

Having customers already installing server 2025, and are in need of a working DP from SP.
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Future consideration

Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

SIPro to trigger SGCs on FlashSystem when malware is detected

To have a fast SGC triggered when malware is detected, we should enable SIPro to trigger such without Defender DRS. Now this can be done with webhooks- that requires no out-of-the-box solution and a lot of customization.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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