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We would like to have a way to export/import LDAP settings cross different IBM Storage systms.

Customer approached me asking why TS4500/TSSC/TS7700/DS8000 all are using separate ways to configure LDAP. They are requesting a way to configure one system and then copy these settings to the others. IBM in Tucson develop all, so this should be p...
6 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Increase limits and remove restrictions for NVMe over Fiber Channel

Increase the limit of "NVMe over Fiber Channel hosts per I/O group = 16", (maybe to double that) and REMOVE the Volume Mobility restrictions #5: "SCSI only. Fibre Channel and iSCSI supported. NVMe not supported." IBM has been touting the usefulnes...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Implement certificate validation

Currently certificates are not validated. If a corrupted/defect certificate is uploaded, the library just accept it, and the gui will be broken/not accessible any more. The only way to fix this is to directly access the gui via the panel on your (...
17 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

IBM CDM and IBM Sentinel with central management across multiple sites

Most european customers running a separation between primary and backup data centers. IBM CopyDataManagement + IBM Sentinel should be able to work and manage SnapShots across multiple sites. IDEA and REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT An application-consiste...
10 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Search for the node serial number

When we see a CSP ticket with a link to storage insights, the link points to the machine park, not the specific device for which the ticket is open. There is no search option to check for the node serial number. The node serial number is listed in...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

Webhook support for more than ransomware alerts

It could be useful to have Storage Insights able to push events details to third-party URL whenever an alert is raised or when any event is triggered. This would push the integration of Storage Insights further with ticketing or any other event ma...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Virtual Host Style addressing support for CES S3

Virtual Host Style addressing (https://bucket.my-s3-server.com) is the preferred S3 addressing option for AWS - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Scale CES S3 does not support this out-of-the box yet. Wi...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Migrate SVC volumes from/to pools with different extent sizes

Would it be possible to add a feature/fuction that volumes can be migrated from a pool to another where the pools (source and target pool) have different extent sizes? That would be verry helpful for migration tasks in long grown environments wher...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

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