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IBM support ideas for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 for 2023 for TS7700 and TS4500

This would benefit Wells Fargo for the most updated security.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

excluded VMs in unprotected list

The Policy Overview should have a excluded VM resource in my opinion. Annoying having x number of Unprotected VMs reported every day when it is perfectly ok and should not be reported as an error.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

No direct support for open-source database like Mongo DB,Cassandra, MySQL, MariaDB,PostgreSQL

Why: Robust one stop backup solution and no need for additional storage to perform local native backup, optimized performance and granular recovery. Who Would Benefit:Application users , System admins , DB admins and organizational leadership. How...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

No native backup support for Nutanix

Why: Seamless integration, optimized performance, granular recovery, compliance adherence, and vendor support contribute to a robust backup solution within the Nutanix VM environment. Note: Currently it is supported by Storage Defender but it requ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under 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).
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

CNSA / CSI add support for Access Mode ROX (ReadOnlyMany)

There are UseCases where Data should be shared between PODs or among different Clusters. To protect Data and prevent inconsistency it would be beneficial to enforce a ReadOnly Mode at OpenShift PV Level. Currently, ReadOnly can only be set in the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect: Task Time Preview and Progress Indicators

There are currently no preview or progress indicators for server and client related tasks. It would be good to get an indication of how long a task will take before kicking it off as well as an indication of how much time is still remaining for th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Control: View Easy Tier Load Setting

Need the ability to see what the Easy Tier Load value is for SVC mdsisk.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

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