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Need steps on how we can integrate SPserver with QRADAR SIEM for application threat detection

Useful in integration of QRADAR SIEM with the sp server. And what events to be monitored for the threat detection on sp server?
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Change to CIM support

On version 8.6.1 and newer, support for the CIM protocol is removed. Some third party applications that connect using the CIM protocol will need to be updated.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 9 Delivered

NFS Ganesha server to support over 4TB user quota report.

User quota below 4TB report currect :$ quota -s Disk quotas for user ibm (uid 1000): Filesystem space quota limit grace files quota limit grace 10.155.7.115:/gpfs/gpfs0/ibm 18414M 4000G 0K 33 0 0 User quota over 4TB report this capacity which is...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Fusion HCI - container placement optimisation through the use of taints and tolerations

IBM Storage Fusion HCI is an appliance based configuration which has a set of standard best practices. some of these practices include not deploying standard container workloads on special nodes (AFM / GPU) however by default Fusion HCI has no log...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Delivered

FS9500 - inbound CHAP where we can manipulate the secret per host bases

ISCSI- Mutual Chap authentication Inbound: We see option to set system wide chap secret authentication for ISCIS attached hosts. Currently IBM offering System wide chap (being configured via chsystem CLI) is used for two way chap authentication wh...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TLS Certificate import to Trustore for Call Home and RCL Download

Clients more often are using IPS (Intrusion Prevention System ) / Deep Packet Inspection on their proxy or firewalls and demand the possibility to import own RootCA and Intermediate CA as the firewalls injecting their own certificates which result...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 3 Delivered

Allow different size volumes at target in a Flashcopy session or Make Migration session to same DS8K.

This will allow move disks to bigger sizes on same DS8K. I was using CSM to disk migration but when I tried to run on same DS8K I got an error. So, I have to run the FCESTABL on zOS, which worked perfectly with different sizes at target. The benef...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

HDFS transparency: Support Certificates with 4096 key length

As security requirements rise more and more, it is essential to support for HDFS transparency certificates with 4096 key length instead of only 2048.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Realization of FlashCopy restore(reverse FlashCopy) while keeping 3-site HyperSwap relationships

One limitation at this time is that the 3-site HyperSwap relationship must be deleted to perform a reverse FlashCopy, in which case the 3-site HS is reconfigured to cause an initial copy. Reverse FlashCopy are used as one of the normal operationa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Support of SVC stretched incremental snapshot by Spectrum Copy Data Management (SCDM)

According to SCDM documentation, ii should be able to create mirrored snapshot when using an SVC with Enhanced Streched Cluster. Unfortunately this is not yet supported/working when Incremental Snapshots are used.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered