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Eliminate divisive language from your products

We're almost 1/4th of the way into the 21st century ... no IBM product should use terms like master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, etc.
about 13 hours ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

SCDM - CDM/Sentinel - Post snapshot script run before Sentinel scan starts

Clients using Sentinel Scan engine needs a way to kickoff a Post Snap script before the Scan Engine gets started for Sentinel. This will allow clients the ability to get some work done before a long scan run, such at 15-20 hours.
about 2 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
8 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because COS System send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
about 14 hours ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for hosted bare metal worker

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
2 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
23 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

IBM Spectrum Archve EE - One failed candidate (e.g. deleted) for migration causes whole migration task fail, space allocated, migration must be repeated

Migration task should finish successfully even any individual file fails (reason of failure could be that user deleted of changed file after start of migration), it helps to save drive time so no new re-migration is needed. If migration fails, spa...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration
209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
11 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

Associate Multiple Sysplexes on different type of sessions

Allow to associate multiple sysplexes to one session to support features as Hyperswap for SAS and shared volumes. As implemented in CSM 6.3.10 for 4 sites replication enhanced sessions we would like to be able to associate multiple sysplexes to a ...
13 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

REST API to get performance metrics (including RPO) for volume groups

Need a REST API to get the performance metrics for volume groups that are displayed in Storage Insights. This includes the RPO metrics.
7 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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