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    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

    Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

    The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

    Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

    Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Query for bitmap increment status

    During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
    9 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

    ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

    Adding a new volume to a parent volume group containing a snapshot that a thin-clone volume group was created from should automatically add the volume to the thin-clone VG when that VG is refreshed from a new snapshot taken from the parent VG.

    Since the thin-clone VG is tied to the snapshot of the parent, if you add LUNs to the parent and create a new snapshot and then refresh the thin-clone from the new snapshot, it seems logical that you would want the thin-clone VG to also have the n...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Need a msg issued to z/OS when the SGC backup completes either successfully or unsuccessfully so we can trap it via automation.

    We run a SGC scheduled task every hour. We need to be able to get notified via z/OS automation when a SGC backup completes either successfully or unsuccessfully. More importantly we need to build automation informing us when a SGC backup has not b...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Functionality already exists

    Add the ability to accept a callhome Flash system block device via Rest API

    We are trying to automate tasks across nearly 80 systems, and this number grows with each release. Currently, accepting each system manually through the SI UI is time-consuming. We aim to automate this process using the REST API and validate the i...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    vSnap – migrate data from one vSnap to another vSnap

    vSnaps of SPP are created but in the lifecycle the amount of data will increase. When a new vSnap is needed to increase capacity at the moment only new VMs will be backed up to this vSnap. To migrate data of vSnaps you need to create a new policy:...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    ESXi 8.0.3 security scanning support form VMs with snapshots

    Quote from the documentation: Sentinel server with version 8.10 or higher can scan virtual machines on ESXi version 8.0.3. However, if those VMs have VMware snapshots, the host will not scan them. Sentinel server with version 8.9 or earlier can al...
    3 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

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