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ibm.storage_virtualize.ibm_svcinfo_command module to have filtervalue options available for use

The ability to have the filtervalue option available would enable searching through lsvdisk to be a much more efficient when it comes to utilising the Ansible Collection. It would reduce the dependency on having to handle the large output from an ...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Object Lock / Immutability with SP/P with Hitachi Cloud Scale

In alignment with our Cyber Resiliency sales play many of our clients are looking at ways to utilise the assets they already have purchased to "sure up" their infrastructure. We know data management solutions are a target of internal and external ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support MariaDB

Important pubic sector in Spain (Andalucia sub-region) has decided to use "Maria DB" as new Data Base (replacing Oracle).Some customers in that public sector loves SPP for future Containers, VMs and Aplication Data Protection but they really need ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore

We would like to get minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore which allows our users to have and ability to go back in time in case of any issues. Now the policies are available only for hourly, daily and weekly. On our curr...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

allow encryption of database backups not only for cloud but also for tape and file

Please allow encryption of database backups not only for cloud but also for tape and file device classes. This is a requirement from security regulations in Germany.
almost 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Option to overwrite resources when doing retore

When doing a restore of resources, you have to previously delete the ones you want to restore. This is really complicated for customers and other backup SW allows "overwrite" including a tick on the restore process
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

network access controlm for mmsysmon REST API

Currently mmsysmon REST API allows all inbound connections. Our cybersecurity penetration team has successfully sent network packets that caused REST API to malfunction, leaving hundreds of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state. In this scenario CherryP...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Directory Container Erasure Coding

I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Prioritise selection of zOS Host Connections in Copy Services Manager

Have the ability to be able to prioritise/order which zOS system(s) in the zOS Host Connection panel in Copy Services Manager (CSM) is selected. There is the possibility that some zOS systems added as zOS Host Connections may not have equal CPU ca...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

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