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    Encryption on Metro/Global Mirror Link (FCP/PPRC)

    It is currently an audit exposure if data is encrypted only at a rest. Clients are required to encrypt data in all physical media where the data transits and is stored, from the CPU to disk, and also from primary copy to all other copies where it ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Monitoring DS8K network adapters

    Using Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) the network adapters are now key for this function. Currently there is no function available to monitor the utilization of the adapters. The idea is to add an option within ‘monitoring’ à ‘performance’ where I...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly.

    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly. ==========================nvme resv-register /dev/nvme1n1 --crkey=0x1 --nrkey=0x12345678 --rrega=0NVME Reservation success ==========================n...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    GCP Object Lock support

    Backups immutability feature by using google cloud object locking. Add GCP to a large list of already compatible object storage sources: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-object-storage-support
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enable TS7700 monitoring, alerting, and reporting from Storage Insights

    For a more complete view of overall storage asset health, capacity, and utilization status from a single source, including the capability for TS7700 and TS4500 tape storage assets to take advantage of the same reporting, alerting, and automation S...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Installation DSCLI via Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

    In the past we used DSCLI on Windows. In this environment we got informations about the software itself and security vulnerabilities automatically via a software management tool. If there was a breach or new version we got automatically informed. ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Few IP Quorum ideas: Appliance, updated OS/Java matrix, IP Quorum application updates

    1. Appliance. It would be much easier to deploy IP Qourum as an appliance (for example OVF) or an ISO with simple wizard to install full OS and application. Currently end user gets JAR file which has to be deployed somewhere and services (Windows ...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

    In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Needs more information

    REST-API request for GET a list of defined LDAP Users/Groups and their roles

    Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query detailed permissions of authenticated users. Which LDAP Users/Groups are defined ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    REST-API request for GET a list of defined LDAP Users/Groups and their roles

    Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query detailed permissions of authenticated users. Which LDAP Users/Groups are defined ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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