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    IO Performance Reporting/Tracking of Specific Applications / HPC Jobs

    Add the ability to provide application / job specific performance monitoring and reporting (mmperfmon and GUI). Many HPC customers would like the ability to trace IOs from the filesystem perspective with the granularity of the application/job. Thi...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

    SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Improve CSMCLI scripting by enabling an echo and echoprefix

    In DSCLI, you can define echo on/off and you can set an echoprefix. In CSMCLI, this is still not available. When running CSMCLI in script mode, you see in the output dataset only the command response, but not command itself and you see only the IP...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

    Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    CDM - VMware backup job - Whole datastore selected - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.

    Possibility to scan whole datastore - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.
    6 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Introduce effective quality management

    During the last year, we saw many new ISS code levels, most of them with critical errors that could lead to data corruption or data loss. Fortunately, many costumers were spared from data corruption, but they had to update Scale nearly monthly to ...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Group SP server messages into categories ,specially messages related to CIA (confidentiality, Integratory and availability).

    Toronto Dominion bank ( TD) forward SP server msg into their monitoring system ( splunk ), they have a requirement to forward the msg into specific categories, for example: msg relate to CIA (confidentiality, Integratory and availability). so that...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Increase Safeguarded Copy Backup Capacity per volume beyond the current limit of 14.6 TiB for CKD volumes

    When using maximum sized CKD EAV (Extended Address) volumes on the DS8K it would be useful to to have more than 14.6TiB of safeguarded volume capacity available. If these large volumes experience high change rates they can easily use up all of the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    MFA support with IBM Verify

    Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

    A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

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