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Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SCDM support on Other Hypervisors such as KVM, Hyper-V ... and also make it available as a standalone binary to de deployed on both PowerVM (Linux and/or AIX) and x86 Linux.

With the recent VMware licensing changes a lot of customers has moved away from it and adopting other hypervisors. In Sentinel Bundle the SCDM component which plays the role of external orchestrator to the storage is only supported on VMware see h...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

When doing reclamation, recalls should go to other pool copy in 2nd library during reclamation

This helps reclamation to go much quicker, not being paused by recalls on the same tape!
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Disaster recovery from Storage Protect backup pool for big file systems

We are running multiple Storage Scale file systems in the multi Petabyte size. All data are in Storage Protect backup. The backup is very valuable in case of user driven data loss. But in the case of a disaster where the complete file system is lo...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - Simplify Certificate Management - accept .pfx or .p12 certificate format

As the TSSC does not support to generate a certificate on the machine itself and only create a sign request. I need to order (from a CA) a certificate that holds the private and public key in a .p12 or .pfx format. However, to upload I have to man...
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - Certificates - allow selection of multiple entries

Certificate management shall switch from 'radio' button to 'check-box' to allow multiple entries to be deleted with a single click. Currently I have to select a single entry, click delete, select the next one, click delete and so on. If check boxe...
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

In non-GM sessions, make the SUSPEND command a two-step process

For non-GM sessions (Migration and Metro Mirror), make the SUSPEND command not appear in the default list of commands. I would suggest to add a Session Option in the Session Properties which would have to be selected in order for the SUSPEND comma...
8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Remove unecessary QUERY JOB errors from actlog due to running servermon

When servermon is activated using the parameter ALWAYSONSERVERMON on, the message “ANR0213E QUERY JOB: No jobs found” appears in actlog every 10 minutes. This cannot be disabled, even if you delete or comment out the entry QUERY JOB FORMAT=detail ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

rmsyslogserver should be sent to remote syslog server

Setting up a remote syslog server to catch notifications from StorV is an important component in any security framework. Likewise it is important to monitor if syslog notifications get unconfigured. As of today, removing the last/only syslog serve...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Allow IBM Fusion Backup to continue if PVCs disappear during the backup process

In a very volatile machine learning environment, PVCs are created and deleted frequently, controlled by the containerized application when users create or delete projects within the application. Let’s call these PVCs “User Project Volumes”. It hap...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration