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Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Archive - Undelete functionality

Hi,Our client would like to have a feature on Spectrum Archive that will do the following :1.)Allow the undelete (recreate of stub file) of deleted file(s).2.)List all files on tape.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup Support in the Red Hat OpenShift environment running on POWER platform

Customer is creating new AI workloads on OpenShift running on IBM POWER servers. Spectrum Protect Plus v10.1.7 supports Linux x86_64, but not Linux on POWER.OpenShift is designed to enable portability to multiple platforms, but Spectrum Protect Pl...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect - Copy Retention Sets to Azure Archive Layer

Customer is looking to use the Copy Retention Sets to Cloud as introduced in 8.1.13. They have an existing storage agreement with Azure and so will be using this. Noted that the release includes support for Archive Storage in both AWS and IBM Clou...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Enhance RESTful API to include configuration information missing in the existing offering

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. SSL/TLS Session Timeout Endpoint Identification on LDAP connections SP800-131a Compliance HTTP/HTTPs for Web Dual Control (in R5.4) LDAP Primary Server URL LDAP Alternate Server...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 2 Planned for future release

Prometheus Exporter for zimon metrics

For our compute and Storage systems we are running a monitoring setup based on Prometheus in combination with the Prometheus node exporter and Alert manager. To monitor spectrum Scale health we have some self written scripts collecting metrics. Bu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

IBM SPP: Allow VADP/VSNAP deployment with SSH keys instead of username/password

Hello, VADP and VSNAP Deployment require that you enter a OS username and password for ssh communication. Username and password authentication is not very secure therefore any sane/larger customer will only allow ssh-keys for authentication. Pleas...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Change to CIM support

On version 8.6.1 and newer, support for the CIM protocol is removed. Some third party applications that connect using the CIM protocol will need to be updated.
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

SpVirt encrypted syslog

send encrypted syslog files to a syslog central; our syslog feature currently doesn't include TLS encryption
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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