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SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.13 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Retain CSM level after HMC Kernel update

When CSM is upgraded outside of a Remote Code Load (RCL) using the stand alone DSCLI and an RCL occurs afterwards where the HMC kernel is updated, CSM is back-leveled to the version that is included in the microcode bundle. This forces the User/Ad...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

S3 Object Storages compatible with Transparent Cloud Tiering

We're implementing the Transparent Cloud Tiering for a Mainframe environment and customer would like to use other on-prem solutions of Object Storage, different of TS7700 or COS, to store data. Customer would like to use: - Hitachi HCP - DellEMC E...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

HPO to support InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to have HPO support for deployment on InfiniBand infrastructure.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA on OpenShift on bare-metal along with InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to support CNSA on bare-metal OpenShift with InfiniBand by June 2023. Workaround of CNSA on VMware with InfiniBand is not supported, because OpenShift does not supp...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP - Datastore Utilisation Check

Please can SPP have a setting to check the utilisation % of a datastore prior to backing up to ensure that the snapshot being taken does not risk the datastore running out of space.This can then be checked by SPP prior to each VM being backed up, ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review