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SPP Allow Multiple IBM COS Accessors or Load Balancer for Offload to On-Prem IBM COS

Customer needs the ability to configure the "Copy" portion of their SLA Policy to allow either a load balancer or multiple endpoints to be configured.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Password rules should not apply to ID'S with no GUI access

We have an automation ID that does not have GUI access, but we want to implement password rules. Currently the version of 6.3.12 only provides an all or nothing feature for password rules. I would suggest excluding automation ID'S from password va...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

Allow CSI driver for Flashsystem to define PortSet

The client is using FS9500 to automatically provision Block Storage to BareMetal Openshift servers through the IBM CSI Driver.As a shared infrastructure the client has deployed separated private network for each OCP cluster with Portsets.Today the...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

IBM SV data change rate integrated report

IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

Enhancment to replicate node commando to only replicate nodes in send or sendsync mode

I try to create setups without and errors or warnings from housekeeping scripts.I also try to work with opt-out mechanisms as much as possible for customers that agree to use that backup philosophy. When you build a two-way replicating Spectrum Pr...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Opject Agent support for AIX

Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Ansible modules for DS8000

Provide an ansible collection with modules to perform the equivalent of DSCLI using playbooks. ** Note the RFE webpage forced me to choose an operating system and z/OS was the only choice. This is not a z/OS operating system request
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Restrict automatic node expels with deadlock amelioration with Nodeclass

We would like to possibly use automatic deadlock amelioration, but we need to ensure certain nodes are not expelled. We do not want to auto expel interactive/login nodes from the compute cluster. We already have a Nodeclass that contains these nod...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow RDMA device recognition possible at mmfsd run time

Sometimes, when mmfsd starts up, not all RDMA devices are available (mostly due to temporarily down links). When such a link comes up later, mmfsd would not detect that and consequently ignore the port for the current run. Only when recycled, mmfs...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Under review

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