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    Integration with Storage Insights

    Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 13 Planned for future release
    100 VOTE

    Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

    Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Tiering Object Client Data from a Directory Container Storage Pool (Standard Pool) to Tape

    Currently, IBM Storage Protect allows object client data to be moved to tape only when it resides in a cold storage pool(using the S3 Glacier storage class). There is no supported method to migrate object client data directly from a Directory Cont...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Report outdated disk firmware

    The document "Supported Drive Types and Firmware Levels for IBM Storage Virtualize Family of Products" lists the minimum disk firmware level for each model used by IBM storages. SI has the model and firmware information about all the disks in the ...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

    For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    TS7700 support of IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security

    The DS8900 series storage currently supports IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security. However, the TS7700 does not support IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security, creating a compliance gap. To achieve full end-to-end encryption of FICON traffic, TS7700 s...
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0

    make the ba-client scan a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads

    question: when will the ba-client be able to search through a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads? this feature is standard among most of ba-clients competitors and customers are asking for this frequently.
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    IBM TS4500 Tape Library with FIPS 140-3 Support

    Dear IBM Team, We need your help & support to enable the FIPS 140-3 support with TS4500 + LTO9 + GLKM. Thanks & Regards
    7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    IAM user policies

    In AWS S3, it is common practice to grant bucket access via IAM user policies. This is often much simpler and more straightforward than using bucket policies. The necessary structures have already been added to the noobaa source project. https://g...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect server and storage agent should be supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4

    We need to update all our AIX hosts to AIX 7.3 TL4 in near future. Because of this, we require that the Storage Protect server and storage agent are supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4.
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Planned for future release

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