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Allow for import of Wildcard Certificate on FS5200 for securing WebUI

Currently on the FS5200, you have to create a certificate request and then upload the certificate generated from the request in order to secure the WebUI on the FS5200. We use Wildcard Certificates so that we don't have to order a new cert for eac...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Show command that will be executed via GUI before confirmation

IBM Flashsystem GUI has a nice feature that shows what cli command was executed in the backend for selected options. It would be much better to show what will be executed before confirmation.
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow group owners to also query filesets

We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

DS8 IBM i Volumes Should Include Modern Sizes in Dropdown

When creating IBM i volumes, the default size dropdown includes all the way from 8 GiB to 262.9 GiB, however with all of our modern IBM i environment, the minimum size we use for iASP at least is 477 GiB, which means that we always just have to ch...
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

When tape data is encrypted, but Spectrum Scale recall cache and Stub files are not, how do we encrypt those without recalling the data off tape?

Using both Storage Archive and Storage Scale system (ESS) we need to be able to encrypt the data on ESS without impacting or recalling the tape data (Which is already encryped via the TS4500 Library). The client will be migratiing from Gen2 ESS to...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-Target PPRC via CSM for HDS Controllers

We use Hitachi storage controllers with CSM as data mirroring software. In the case of a 3-sided controller migration, it is necessary to activate multitarget pprc. However, CSM currently does not allow this for storage controllers from other manu...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Scale Storage template for Satellite

Add supported storage template for Spectrum Scale and IBM Storage Scale System (former ESS) in IBM Cloud Satellite. There is a existing CSI https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale-csi . This would simplify management & maintenance for custo...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

ISP code should be able to handle the same input/output volume when multiple parallel reclamation processes need access to the volume

When using the following stgpool configuration with ISP there is a limitation torun parallel reclamation for multiple tape pools within the setup: 1. protect stgpool container_archive_prim --> copy_container_archive_prim2. stgrule copy containe...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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