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    Request for Product Qualification: DAR Encryption External Key Manager for Jack Henry

    Customer is migrating their enterprise to Fortanix DSM 4.23+. They are shutting down their existing EKM's. All data center assets need to utilize Fortanix DSM for centralized, separation of duties, EKM management. Jack Henry current DS8 systems: D...
    9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    cert_distribute.sh script should allow customers to input a list of client nodes

    In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 queries the Storage Protect server for all its Storage Protect client nodes, does some filtering to select only supported platforms, and then will asso...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    IBM Storage Fusion Data Catalog Service - Integration with LDAP for group discovery

    Today Fusion Data Catalog can only discover user accounts that have a profile in the storage array, which means that accounts that are part of a LDAP group or similar Auth Group, are unable to be identified and grouped together to provide a inform...
    9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Node lock

    Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Add reasoning to hidden mmhealth events

    When applying gpfs updates it sometime happens that new TIPS events appear. Some of these tips recomment to carefully check the situation and maybe hide the event. It would be really helpful if you could add a user specifiend comment th the hide c...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Option to choose pop-up window placement for optimized experience

    I think it would be easier to focus on and work with the GUI if different kinds of menus and clickable links would be at the same place (and stop moving around on screen) even when changing between different "views". For example, when looking at t...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Allow more than 1450 characters into SQL statement used in reports section

    Hello, Right now, we are limited to 1450 characters into an SQL statement when generating custom reports from Operation Center. This is an issue when the SQL statement is longer than that. I would like to have that limitation being removed. From t...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

    For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

    Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    Provide structured FS9 syslog messages for easy searching and sorting much like zOS syslog

    The current syslog is a collection of information with no specific message numbers or format. It's difficult to locate specific information.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

    As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

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