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Tagging Node and Data

We see more and more situations where specific nodes or filespaces need to have different functions such Retention Set, Replication to multiple servers or protect to tape and this is a big hazel to mange where we have try both with Node Groups, de...
27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Support for Object Lock on IBM Ceph as an object target for Commvault

Testing required for object lock with Commvault using Ceph as the object target. Customer requirement for capacity of approx 2.6PB Ceph system with support for immutability.
4 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 2 Submitted

allow to update the Defender Connection Manager with a HTTPS certificate signed by client CA, 2 tier PKI, certificates must include correct CN and SAN with FQDN

Related product: IBM Defender Connection Manager Idea: Establish a process in the Connection Manager GUI or on cmd line (similar to the backup / restore script) to create a new CSR = Certificate Signing Request and install a client provided certif...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Scale S3/Nooba tiering to tape

With the new capability S£/Nooba replacing S3/Swift we would use the Scale ILM capability to move buckets/filesets from disk to tape thanks to Storage Archive integration
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Implement SMTP Authenticated access for Operation Center

Currently in all Spectrum Protect versions, we can only connect to an open mail relay in order to send email alerts or reports via the operations center. However the new trend today is to have the mail servers located in the cloud and any access t...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

volume formatting visibility

it would be great to display or at least inform the user that volumes are being formatted at creation or extension in the gui maybe allow to disable the format option in the gui
29 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Provide a resource to verify PGP Keys in SW Packages (e.g. B/A Client)

The SW Packages usually contain a specific PGP key to check validity of the downloaded package. Unfortunately, these keys are changed/replaced without any announcement. By this, customers do not know if the PGP key he has is valid or manipulated. ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

Alert for AC Power missing on Fs9500

Fs9500 is considered Enterprise Storage. When AC power is missing, IBM service notification is NOT opened. Other Enterprise Storage like A9K and Ds8K are reporting this event. Moreover, even if Fs9500 is equipped with 4 different PSU, since AC pow...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Under review