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IBM SP Client/API encryption

Allow the client and api to use external source for encryption keys storage, like SKLM.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Future consideration

Change nodenames for SP for Hyper-V during installation

Please make it possible to be able to change nodenames for the Hyper-V nodes when installing Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Future consideration

Implement S3 management interface in GPFS GUI

S3 object management interface is not available in current version of GPFS GUI. Only available for SWIFT. We need this interface so that customer who want to use S3 API can manage the object easily.The customer who want to use S3 API have to use c...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

DS8000 Create Certificate Request permit alternate HMC DNS entry

When using the Create Certificate Signing Request dialogue (for defining HMC addresses), it is only possible to define one HMC DNS host name. Client wants to be able to define both a common name and a subject alternative name for the DNS entry. Ap...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Request to support kernel version 5.4.15.x

Our OEM parnter Inspur Electronic Information were resold many ECE cluster to their customers. One of key issue is limited kernel supported in Storage Scale. Their customer need flexible support policy to kernel version. Their customer need to use...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

FCM: Central Management GUI

The customer which are using FCM require a central management GUI to manage all FCM environments. In addition, it would be a good idea to integrate the gui with TSM. Also it is interesting because FCM under UNIX platforms don't have any graphical ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Support for Infiiband on Storwize (SVC, V7000 and or V5000)

Infinband usage is being seen in competitors products and need to know when it will be incorporated in the Storwize offering. We're losing deals in DoE labs and NASA to NetApp and Dell because we don't have IB connected storage..
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager VMware In-Guest Support

VMWare In-Guest Support for FCM. Install, handle and use FCM in virtual machines which are attached to storage subsystems (SVC, ...) with full functionality as on physical machines.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 - Monitoring I/O processes

We have in our production environment a GPFS cluster, version 4.2.3, used by the SAS system in version 9.4 M3The cluster consists of 11 servers, with Linux operating system RedHat 6.7 and 7.3, being 5 physical and 06 virtual.It has a dedicated dec...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

enhancements to allocation manager to help alleviate region request/relinquish thrashing

When meta regions are small and fragmented and the node count is large a situation can occur in which clients start thrashing the allocation manager requesting and relinquishing meta regions. In our environment this seems to occur most often when ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration