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Add Ansible for SLES at Scale Toolkit packaging

As known, Ansible is required for Scale Toolkit. The installation of Ansible is done through pip3 install and it connects to a repository to install Ansible. Some clients, special in financial sector, have restrictions to make their servers with e...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP filesystem backup support

SPP Physical server backup server support is required mainly for file server
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multi-Tenancy for Encryption Keys

Secure Multi-Tenancy:Each tenant's data is encrypted with an encryption key that is unique to that tenant, to cryptographically protect each tenant's data from all other tenants (e.g. if they inadvertently gained access to it).
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

To pull graphical representing reports from operation center

Add a feature to pull reports in form of bar/pie, graphical representing reports from operation Centre.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Increase limit for number of independent filesets

Limiting the number of independent filesets to 1000 is a showstopper. Some features we are using require independent filesets (We are using --per-fileset-quota and --filesetdf. We are also considering using fileset snapshots for backup on this sys...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support for non paged mechanism in IBM CSM Flash Copy Manager for z/OS (CSMFCM)

The CSMFCM does not have a non paged mechanism that can survive a freeze. If the page disks are in the configuration the CSMFCM itself get frozen and therefore could not issue the thaw. Therefore it falls on the hardware ELB for the thaw to occur.
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Implement server certificate information in OC

Implement server certificate information in operations centre to prevent from the need to connect to system and using difficult gsk commands.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

add ability to create certificate signing request to SP+ interface

The SP+ admin UI allows us to provide a real (non self signed ) certificate but does not provide a way to create a certificate signing request which is necessary to obtain a real certificate. We need a supported way to create CSRs
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM Incremental Flashcopy Options

Global Mirror Either Direction w/ Two Site Practice. We have the incremental option switched on in the session properties for 'H1-I1 and H2-I2 Options'.This is to allow us to take a daily flashcopy to the H2 volumes at the remote site. A full back...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Erase on Scratch (Hardware)

Last year we were directed to use Erase on Scratch(All) on our z/OS Systems. Testing was done on our Development Systems, but due to long elapsed times for Batch jobs, Erase on Scratch was turned off. We have a mix of DS8886's and DS8870 DASD Subs...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration