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Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Associate Multiple Sysplexes on different type of sessions

Allow to associate multiple sysplexes to one session to support features as Hyperswap for SAS and shared volumes. As implemented in CSM 6.3.10 for 4 sites replication enhanced sessions we would like to be able to associate multiple sysplexes to a ...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Provide a resource to verify PGP Keys in SW Packages (e.g. B/A Client)

The SW Packages usually contain a specific PGP key to check validity of the downloaded package. Unfortunately, these keys are changed/replaced without any announcement. By this, customers do not know if the PGP key he has is valid or manipulated. ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

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

Allow Lun masking for the control path

With the TS4500 and other tape libraries, the Library Control path (SMC Device) is presented via Lun 1 over one or more drives, while access to the drive (RMT Device) itself is provided using Lun 0. In a larger tape environment, there is usually a...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Change process for dual control function

the dual control function raise the security for important functios in TS77xx. To use this function you need 2 groups(or persons) for 'Maker' and 2 groups(or persons) for 'Checker'. The result of this workflow(design) is, that you need 4 Groups to...
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Needs more information

Being able to define an IP white listing to access the Defender Services DMS and DRS

DMS and DRS are SaaS based services which are widely accessible from the Internet. Although there are strong authentication, MFA and other security mechanism controlling the access, some clients are requesting the possibility to restrict access to...
8 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

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

Shorten wait time of LEADM/EEADM Operation while LTO-9 Optimization

Software: Storage Archive LE/EE Condition: when user run format new LTO-9 media, this kicks LTO-9 media optimization, and user use IE slot to import media to Library while optimization. Problem: User must wait LEADM/EEADM operation, such as "show ...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor performance utilization. If a Datastore is performing too much IO, Add a mechanism to drill down to specific VM causing the performance impact within that datastore.

Once vCenter is registered using “Add vCenter” successfully, corresponding hosts and virtual machines are listed (and can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu option). If user choose a particular “Virtual Machine “ it gives details , esp...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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