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network access controlm for mmsysmon REST API

Currently mmsysmon REST API allows all inbound connections. Our cybersecurity penetration team has successfully sent network packets that caused REST API to malfunction, leaving hundreds of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state. In this scenario CherryP...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

RETENTION SET migration from older TAPE format to newer format or Cloud

Data outlives the hardware technology when storing RETENTION SETS for 5 years or more. Being able to efficiently migrate from old to new media type would prove our dedication to the data and increase the longevity of our product.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

cert_distribute.sh should allow customers to input path to dsmcert.kdb file

In the current cert_distribute.sh implementations as level 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 it is not possible to specify the path to the dsmcert.kdb file. The cert_distribute.sh script has a logic searching for the dsmcert.kdb file (function getWindowsCertKDBPa...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Plus Backup Direct to Tape

Need the ability for clients to leverage existing infrastructure such as tape libraries they have bought and allow Spectrum Protect Plus to offload directly to tape.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add a timeout to the MIGRATE STGPOOL command

Every day, we encounter migration processes that are waiting for access to an input file that is busy. Examples of waiting processes (stgpool FER.FILE is devclass=FILE): 63 Migration Volume /sppool/fer3/003CFCB3.BFS (storage pool FER.FILE), Moved ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Improve CLI security

Today (TS4500 release 1.8.x.x), role permissions modified with the CLI are only honored by Web UI users. CLI users do not honor the modified permissions, only the standard permissions inherited by the original role are applied.
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Add monitoring of *_free_memory on io groups

Hello, it would be nice to have monitoring of *_free_memory on SVC/FlashSystem. remote_copy_free_memorymirroring_free_memoryflash_copy_free_memory This would help with monitoring of remaining memory left for bitmap copies. Setting up alert policy ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Bring FICON ports offline

We have TS7700 that need to be isolated from production system. Having the possibility to vary FICON port down on VTS will add another security for data.
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Future consideration

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