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    Enable/ Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path

    Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path Technologie to encrypt FC Traffic between Server and Storage. Plus Traffic between SVC and Flashsystem and Flashsystem to Flashsystem. Why is this needed? It is needed for compliance under DORA and o...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Update DSCLI windows client with Developer Signatures for Win 11 Security

    The current DSCLI client will not install in Windows 11 environments secured with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, as the installer is not signed by a developer certificate. After moving to Windows 11, our storage admin team (4+ admins) is unable t...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    task-based TPI

    The way Two Person Integrity (TPI) is currently implemented collides with our security policies and is not considered a true "4 eyes principal". When SecAdmin1 approves a time slot of X minutes for SecAdmin2 to do anything with superuser powers th...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA

    New version of DCDM 2.2.27 or another version - The ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA (via Sentinel) also on the non-production side.
    4 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    Installation of DSCLI with all Java Versions

    Manual "DS8 Command-Line Users Guide":Java Platform (Java 8 or later) must be installed on your system. The installation program checks for this requirement during installation and does not install the DS CLI if you do not have Java Platform, Ente...
    about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket

    A topic we discussed with the client was the ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket. This can be achieved with bucket policies. However, in Scale S3 we do not support the Condition clause of a bucket policy. The condition ...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

    Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

    Assigning less CES IPs than CES Nodes to a cluster should not throw a warning

    Hi! If you have multiple CES Nodes in a cluster but only one (or less CES IPs than CES Nodes) every CES Node, which does not have a IP assigned will throw the warning "ces_network_ips_down". This is very misleading, because the IPs aren't down on ...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhancement to Fusion HCI GDP metro DR

    Fusion HCI Metro DR for VM requires admin to manually copy the VM yaml to DR HCI during failover. This is not automated and error prone. Customer who use HCI for VM, will run thousands of VMs. This is not practical to do it manually. Request to au...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Functionality already exists

    New Flash 4th Site command in 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

    It is requested to provide a new command "Flash 4th Site" that would provide similar functionality to the "Flash 3rd Site" command. We would request that the 4 Site session, knowing the current 4th site, would carry out all of the steps required t...
    15 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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