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Support https natively on S3 objects in protocol nodes

This RFE is opened in behalf of General Motors. Vendors are required to support secure http i.e https for Object Store as one of the protocols provided in Spectrum Scale protocol nodes. Currently the product does not support https.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SNMP v3 support for TS4500

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

Show the sum of used capacity when selecting multiple volumes via GUI

When selecting multiple volumes via GUI, show the sum of Used Capacity for the selected volumes, along with the Capacity that is already displayed today.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

zHyperlink health status needs to be monitored and reported by Storage Insights

zHyperlink ports are not monitored or reported by Insights. The main advantage of Insights is the ability to see the status of all our boxes from one screen. Except that in this case, we still need to go back to all individual DS8K GUI's to double...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

DBBackup to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is STILL no way to get database backups into the cloud directly. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which was rejected by AIX prod...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

select more than 20 nodes (VM's) per vCenter for Backup

In the vCenter plugin extension we can select only 20 VM's. If we select more, we will get an error, that only 20 are possible in one backup. In some cases (failed backups) we need to restart more than 20 VMs from the vCenter GUI.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Provide auth and security status of connections via standard mm commands

It would useful to have the auth and security status of connections/mounts via standard supported mm commands (mmdiag|mmlsmount).
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Storage Insights doesn't collect performance data often enough

Storage Insights can collect performance data no more frequently than every minute. Some storage devices, such as Spectrum Virtualize, collect data more frequently than that. Since some performance events take place on the scale of seconds, it is ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

Segregation of Duties in Spectrum Protect server

Client wants to completely segregate the authority to manage accounts in Spectrum Protect from all other Spectrum Protect authorizations.Current setup where a System account is required to manage admin IDs and -rights which includes all other righ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

mmdf needs an option to not reach out to all remote clients

On our very large environment, mmdf will take hours to run. This is apparently because the ESS cluster will reach out to our thousands of remote clients to verify accuracy of its statistics. Worse the entire system slows down while this is occurri...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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