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Add VMware Tape support to ISP Server

Today ISP is supported as an ESX Guest but with a carve out for tape.https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546#VMware%20ESX%20Guest Historically this was due to the ESX 5.x limitation that explicitly did not support tape. VMware h...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

add security to dscli commands

we want to create personalized security profile by selecting only some dscli commands (and equivalence with the GUI) to restrict permission to a community.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Auto-cleanup /tmp/mmfs

Over time /tmp/mmfs fills up will diagnostic data from gpfs.snap. Provide a facility to cleanup those files automatically based on age.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Dynamic Workload Re-Balancing between vSnaps in a single site

More dynamic workload distribution would be a great feature to add into SPP. For example vSnap 1 is 75% full and newly added vSnap 2 is 5% full therefore migrate some of the existing snapshots (base and incremental) to vSnap 2 for dynamic workload...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP within the Federal Market

Within the Federal Market, we are unable to sell Spectrum Protect Plus as it uses the CentOS as its base OS. CentOS is not able go through the DOD Security Technical Implementation Guide process (STIG) to identify vulnerabilities for the OS or the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fusion HCI internal Scale Storage as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF

Enable so the internal Scale Storage in Fusion HCI can be used as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF. Using ODF on top of redundancy in Scale causes very low storage utilization without real incremental redundancy benefits. Some kind of st...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Enhancements for DS8000 REST API

We are using REST API to get configuration data out from the DS8000 storage system.We would like to have more API request types to get also security informations from DS8000.We need to know the active authentication policy with properties, informa...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

SNMP v3 support for TS4500

Security hardening
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Thresholds for security notifications

The security notifications introduced in v8.1.5 for ransomware protection can't be tuned and are usually inadequate for volatile systems. After every client backup session, statistics are analyzed for signs of a ransomware infection (large increas...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

AFM immutable file support

Need to be able to make files immutable in a home fileset for AFM in order to protect data from ransomware, data will be created at the cache site (single-writer) and transferred to the home site using AFM, data are to be retained at the home site...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release