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    SNMP v3 support for TS4500

    Security hardening
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Node Replication Status

    When a node fails to replicate, it is nearly impossible to determine why it failed. You have to open a PMR and gather logs and usually have to bring in level II support. This is a big waste of both my and IBM supports' time.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    GUI Audit Log Improvements

    Streamline GUI Audit logging. It's a little noisy which makes it a challenge to seek out legitimate events. There are also basic critical events/actions that should be included which appear to be missing.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale VMWare ESX V7 Support

    Hallo,we plan to migrate our SAS-Grid Cluster to a VMWare based Plattform. These Platform is installed with ESX Version 7.0 U2. But currently scale support only V6.x.This gap stop our Migrationsplans currently. With the introduction ov Version 7 E...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    include ABRT packages in EMS repos

    It is common for support to ask for a core or ABRT report as part of in depth troubleshooting of particularly nasty Scale System component issues. Currently those ABRT packages are not included in the repositories packaged with the EMS node and it...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    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 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Support COHESITY SmartFiles S3 Object Lock for IBM Storage Protect Container Storage Pools

    It is a major Storage Protect customer request. This customer has a project to integrate COHESITY SmartFiles and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Storage Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    DS8XXXX Improve How Fibre Channel Port Location is Displayed in GUI

    Under a previous RFE it was requested to add in the physical location of an IO Port to the New DS8 GUI in the Fibre Channel Ports view:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=121398 In the old GUI when we went to c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Multi-namespace Crash Consistency / Consistency Groups

    Today, Consistency Groups as supported with Scale/GDP ensure that all Pods in a single namespace can be snapshotted in a crash-consistent way. A financial services customer is asking for consistent snapshots spanning PV/PVCs in separate namespaces.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    SP for VE: Remove or increase 8TB size VMware virtual machine disks limit

    To be able to protect large VMware vmdk files using Spectrum Protect fot Virtual Environments, can the limit on vmmaxvirtualdisks option be increased or removed?
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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