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Add certificate JKS synchronizing between Primary and Standby Servers

Our INSOSEC department does not allow any self-signed certificates in our environment. All certificates must be CA-Signed. We currently run our Primary CSM on z/OS to make it simple to manage Hyperswap sessions. We run our Standby Servers on HMC s...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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

include space-efficient storage display in the lsextpool command

The space efficient storage is not taken in account in the lsextpool command. I recently wanted to create volume on a DS8K, the lsextpool showed me it was 77% full, but the command ended for a lack of non-ESE extent in the extpool. It took me some...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Provide GUI option to list TS7700 virtual tape components with serial numbers

Hello, Recently we run into issue while tried MES upgrade an existing TS7700 virtual tape system. The IBM inventory services were not capable to list all components of the VTS, and for manually could add them to the configuration we would have to ...
about 2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1

CNSA HashiCorp Vault Encryption Key Server Support

Add support in CNSA for using HashiCorp Vault encryption key server with Scale CNSA. Currently supported in normal Scale but not in CNSA.
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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

Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 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

Storage Scale - Need GPFS to support storing or exporting performance data into enterprise-level time series database like InfluxDB or Prometheus

Problem: 1. The "pmcollector" service usually cannot work well when the GPFS cluster has over 100 nodes. As a result, the GUI will not display the performance data normally. And restarting the GUI will not help.2. ZIMON can not process large amoun...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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