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    Defender Data Protect (DDP) Configuration Backup

    Why is it useful? A DDP configuration backup is essential for quick recovery and business continuity in isolated environments without a remote cluster. Without it, a DDP server failure means manual re-configuration and re-onboarding, leading to si...
    6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information

    The DS8900 uses a 2048 bit RSA-encryption for the request and that doesn't suite our certification authority (3072 bit or better 4096 bit)

    The DS8900 uses a 2048 bit RSA-encryption for the request and that doesn't suite our certification authority (3072 bit or better 4096 bit). Even with the 9.4 release it still seems to be a 2048 bit key and there is no possibility to change/adjust ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    add full DB2 Backup and Restore support to DDP

    we use DDP for VMware, AD, MS SQL, Container, Mongo DB, physical server, clusters and as an S3 target for all applications without agent support or embedded S3 support. Our biggest workload, IBM DB2, is the only application still on ISP. That make...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Snapshot and VG Snapshot Transparency to Expert Admins

    Currently the VG snapshots and vDisk snapshots are intransparent on the UI and cmd for expert administrators. Snapshot Disk are hidden and can only made visible with certain commands on the cmd but not on the UI. Which Snapshot rely on which other...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Support for air-gapped Fusion HCI 'hosted' clusters

    Several clients with airgapped environments want to test-drive the hosted cluster feature, which is currently not officially supported on airgapped Fusion HCI. This is for hosted Red Hat OCP 4.17 and 4.18, which both support airgap.With minimal ch...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 2

    Develop or update API to show compression information in GEN10 for pools and devices

    This information will help to monitor the growth of the data in the DS8K. It's actually availlable in DSCLI but not in API.
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Add filter to FAL (File Audit Log), so it's possible to ignor specific events

    When FAL is enabled, it's all or nothing. When enabled in a bussy enviroemnt the number of events is high. It will be possitive if it was possible to ignoge specific events (ex. directory list) so the number of events could drop in number
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

    Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    now ibm csi issue job to gui, gui only has 16 threads to handle it, in some condition it is very slow, gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task

    gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    To have new command backup nodedata that copies the primary data of selected nodes to copy stgpools, independent of underlying primary storage pools.

    Like the move nodedata can move data for special nodes we would like to have that for a backup nodedata that copies the primary data of selected nodes to copy stgpools. We would not need to create extra primary stgpools for driving backup stg but ...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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