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    Automatic Safegurded volumes to s3 or COS

    With safeguarded copy, we have a fantastic solution to provide an immutable copy of a volume. Rapid recovery is effective if the volume resides on the storage array, however, with ransoware taking 200+ days to detect, it is less likely this volume...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Future consideration

    Disaster recovery from Storage Protect backup pool for big file systems

    We are running multiple Storage Scale file systems in the multi Petabyte size. All data are in Storage Protect backup. The backup is very valuable in case of user driven data loss. But in the case of a disaster where the complete file system is lo...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Extend CSM RESTful API for zos certificate import to work with multiple CSM z/OS connections for different consistency groups

    The current REST API to update a zos certificate into CSM does not allow filtering of z/OS connections if CSM has multiple z/OS connections to different consistency groups. The Swagger doc for this API does not have any parameter input or filter t...
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

    When tape data is encrypted, but Spectrum Scale recall cache and Stub files are not, how do we encrypt those without recalling the data off tape?

    Using both Storage Archive and Storage Scale system (ESS) we need to be able to encrypt the data on ESS without impacting or recalling the tape data (Which is already encryped via the TS4500 Library). The client will be migratiing from Gen2 ESS to...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    The DS8 screens need to account for Journal Date when showing capacity

    The current screens do not account for journal data when showing capacity numbers. This can lead to confusion. SI can show a DS8 is only 50% full but if it is doing replication with journal volumes it may spike up to higher at times. Meaning the c...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

    MFA support with IBM Verify

    Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

    A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    Call home for Storage Defender

    IBM Storage Defender does not yet have an integrated call home solution to send hardware logs to IBM Support and thus facilitate the replacement of defective equipment. In this case, I suggest creating a solution that identifies if the client is u...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    Support for concurrent uCode update on DS8000 FCP-attached SCSI disks for 21CS VSEn customers

    Currently, based on very old experiences with IBM z/VSE and DS8000 uCode upgrades, on the Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6585326 for example IBM DS8900F Microcode Customer Informatio...
    about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

    SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

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