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Get the HighWater mark of Safeguarded Copy used capacity

We would like to know the maximal used of the Safeguarded Copy capacity for a volume. This will improve the monitoring of SafeguardedCopy and will help to define a good multiplier (and be sure we can backup the full volume, in addition to regular ...
5 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...

Drive letter definition per Windows client.

Currently Windows client mount drive letters can only be defined when a cluster is created. This is inflexible if a drive letter is not defined on a cluster and Windows clients need adding later. The only workaround is to create a remote cluster t...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh 

For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...
209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

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

Webhook support for more than ransomware alerts

It could be useful to have Storage Insights able to push events details to third-party URL whenever an alert is raised or when any event is triggered. This would push the integration of Storage Insights further with ticketing or any other event ma...
14 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

TS7700 - Aligned cryptographic support for TLS

Regardless of the interface I'm using on TS7700 or TSSC, the TLS support must be the same on all interfaces like HTTPS and RYSLOG. All of them must be kept in synch and up to date (which is nowadays TLS1.3). Currently there is a mixture of possibl...
4 days ago in IBM TS7700 1 Planned for future release

TS7700 - Setup of the timezone (to send RSyslog records with the same time as the receiving system)

TS7700 and TSSC do support the setup of an RSyslog Client and externalize the log collection. However, it is not possible to define a local timezone on either TS7700 or TSSC. This results in a mixture of log entries in the receiving Syslog Server ...
4 days ago in IBM TS7700 1 Under review

Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
16 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Implement password policy for CSM Users in the Basic User Registry

There is obviously no password policy for CSM Userids in the basic user registry, when using CSM on HMC. This is a security breach, because the CSM users are not prompted to use a complex password. But in most cases, they do it voluntary to ensure...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration