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    Add AIX support to Storage Defender

    Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Needs more information

    Ransomware detection functionality for IBM Storage Protect.

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to detect possible ransomware attack on backed-up and/or archived data. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to provide such functionality because IBM Storage Virtualize on I...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add new option for the tag value in content search policy: "1st Capturing Group"

    In content search policies, you can use a regular expression to match content, selecting True/False or "Value matching expression" to be used as the tag's value. For example: Regular Expression: \b[\w_-]+\d{5}[\w_-]+\bContent: /opt/applications/da...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 3 Not under consideration

    Implementation of AOS Control via Ansible

    As per security requirement AOS must be closed and should only be opened when there is a reason for it. Like IBM Support working on machines or in case of any defects. In these cases, the control center gets involved and sometimes people who are n...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    "dsmadmc -tab" should escape tabs in output fields

    The -tab option to dsmadmc is useful for passing output to other applications for parsing. Unfortunately, dsmadmc does not escape tabs in the output, which means that tools that expect tabs to be used only as column separators will incorrectly spl...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Extend PBR command set

    Currently PBR has some "limited" set of command available, because the idea was to keep it simple and more automatic possible. Some customer which are exploring PBR, believe that having the chance to "STOP" and "START" a VG replication w/o necessa...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    Add the ability to specify the key serving certificate when adding new key servers to the key server list via the WebUI

    I am performing an upgrade/migration of our SKLM 4.2 environment to SKLM 5.0. The key serving certificate for 4.2 is different from the key serving certificate that is being used by the 5.0 environment. On older Storwize/Flash Systems firmware, wh...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    When Safeguarded Copies are in place it should not be possible to delete a Mdisk (should be a part of TPI)

    At the moment, when you are using Safeguarded Copy, you can delete a VDisk of\and MDisk (even if TPI enabled). When deleting one or more Mdisks, Safeguarded Copy won't help you. So there must be a way to prevent deleting Mdisk(s) when SGC is in pl...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    REST API to get performance metrics (including RPO) for volume groups

    Need a REST API to get the performance metrics for volume groups that are displayed in Storage Insights. This includes the RPO metrics.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    API to change the admin password on DS8000

    Since they're integration issues with CyberArk and DS8K it would be great for clients to able to change admin user password with API.
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

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