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In local Encryption Context , Customer have no wy to check encryption status. This lead into long run discussion with no ending when need to supply encryption evidence to SecurityAudit Team"

When only have FC5272 using local encryption mgr, for data at rest . VTS admin people cannot supply trustable evidences to Security Team about the encryption status. We raise a case TS015965829 , we were explain, the the VTS MI data encryption tab...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Functionality already exists

SCSI Unmap support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado V5/6

Our German customer is using a lot of Huawei Arrays with SVC and need support for UNMAP command for external Huawei OceanStor Dorado storage.It is a very big and valuable customer
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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

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

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

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

Monitoring the number of I/Os prevented by Throttle for a vdisk.

This RFE is to have a monitoring / statistics capability of throttled volumes, to see how many I/Os exceeded the configured limit. This is useful for clients to adjust the throttle when too many I/Os are being "paced". Competition (HP storages) al...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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

Add Support for IBM Spectrum Scale SafeguardCopy in Spectrum Protect as enhanced Cybercrime Solution for the Spectrum Protect Server Platform

In the area of cyberattacks its necessary to enhance the data-security in Spectrum Protect Installations. These attacks are coming. If we can immplement the scale safeguard Copy function in an spectrum protect installation for our GPFS Conf, DB, l...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Directory-container stgpool protection using cloud-container stgpools

A directory-container storage pool can not be protected by using a cloud-container storage pool, neither via the PROTECTstgpool nor the PROTECTLOCalstgpools options. It would make sense to allow a directory-container storage pool to be protected t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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