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Power Consumption and Energy Statistic Reports

As with most companies nowadays, we have a very large focus on our environmental impact. Keeping track of our power consumption and carbon output is very important and it's something I would like to see added to be available from a PE-Pack for DAS...
8 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Operation Center should have the option to use SMTP with authetication method

The Operation Center deployed in a production environment should have the option to user other SMTP methods to send reports. My client do not allow smtp wthout authentication in production environment.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

SPP: Enable filesystem & DB Backup at the same time

When looking in the System requirements for SPP, the following restriction is mentioned: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6421231 Only one application server or file server can be assigned per host. For example, if a host is registered as a ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Provide support for COS WORM (and other S3 or BLOB equivalent WORM features)

Multiple customers and BPs have requested that Spectrum Protect supports the WORM functionality in S3 offload, be that the COS specific or the general S3 protocol WORM functionality. While not specifically required it also seems prudent to extend ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Add REST API function to LIST the current certificate installed on DS8K systems

Hello team, Our team is working with a customer to automate certificate management for certificates installed on RACF, installed on DS8K, and installed on zHMC, to facilitate this process, reduce the amount of effort and decrease the change of hav...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Stream Audit Log entries Spectrum Protect Plus

It should be possible to stream the Spectrum Protect Plus audit log to a central collector, much like Syslog. At the moment it's only possible to download the audit log (or parts of it) using HTTP or the REST API.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fully declarative cephadm experience

Clients moving to cephadm yaml-based declarative Ceph management expect that they can fully manage day-1 and day-2 operations using that method so that they can leverage the GitOps pattern for operations. Areas to be improved: Every parameter that...
10 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Under review

It would be good to have an automated way for taking care of acfs file system backups

TSM does not currently support acfs file systems (even though they can be backed up as "regular" file systems and as long as they are specifically declared as domains in the dsm.sys file (or elsewhere). We are currently facing a scenario where our...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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