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Enable Storage Protect Snapshot to provide a user defined name for the name of the volumegroup snapshot

When SPS is being used with IBM FlashSystem volumegroup snapshots, it creates the snapshots with a name following the convention "SPS_". The snapshot name is determined by SPS and can not be manipulated by a user. Please enhance SPS with an option...
1 day ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Allow Storage Protect Snapshot to specify a target partiton for thin-clones when using FlashSystem volumegroup snapshots

IBM Storage Protect Snapshot supports backup, restore and offload operations using the "Coordinated HA snapshot feature" of Policy-Based High Availability (HA) topologies for the IBM FlashSystem. This requires to have all volume groups that are in...
1 day ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Allow Storage Protect Snapshot to specify a target storagepool for thin-clones when using FlashSystem volumegroup snapshots

IBM Storage customers tend to enable the "volume protection" feature on their FlashSystems (it is enabled globally by default, but can be disabled either globally, or on a per- storage pool basis). This feature prevents the deletion and the unmapp...
1 day ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Why IBM needs native integration with Apache CloudStack

Apache CloudStack has become one of the leading IaaS cloud platforms in Brazil. It powers public cloud providers, private enterprise clouds, and large-scale academic environments. This trend accelerated after VMware’s licensing changes following i...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Provide host attachment support for Proxmox VE using NVMe-oF/FC and NVMe/TCP in PBHA environment

Proxmox VE is an emerging hypervisor in the DACH market. Currently, storage attachment for Proxmox VE hosts is only possible via FC/SCSI and iSCSI, whereas NVMe/TCP is already supported for VMware when using PBHA. NVMe-oF/FC and NVMe/TCP deliver s...
9 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Create a Migration-type Session for situations where the target DS8K HMC is not accessible via the network

Issue:I have a repeating need to migrate from one DS8K (source) to another DS8K (target). The source and target DS8Ks are not on the same network and thus the CSM Migration session will not function for the migration of data. There are network sec...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Security and Usability for Trace Files

We would like to propose the following two enhancements for trace files generated by IBM Storage Protect. 1. Option to Exclude File Names from Trace Files The names of files being backed up may contain information from which confidential or privac...
18 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Submitted

add sainfo commands for nodes which are service state to snap script

in couple of scenarios a node is an service customer is usual taking at first a snap 3 which does not contain saout commands from nodes in service and we than need to go back and ask for single snap collection or agreement for using SRA. To get st...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

UNIVERSAL ADVANCED Quantum Sensor Calibration and Drift Detection Project Acronym: UAQSCDD

PROBLEM: The quantum sensor calibration and drift detection gap is a transition gap: migration to quantum-safe cryptography is a multi-year programme, but the inventory of what must migrate, what has migrated, and what was verified lives in spread...
about 2 hours ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

UNIVERSAL ADVANCED Rural Clinic Connectivity and Offline Care Continuity Project Acronym: UARCCOCC

PROBLEM: The rural clinic connectivity and offline care continuity gap is that health technology is regulated device by device while patients live system by system: data, consent, and device history are held in separate silos, so an error in one p...
about 2 hours ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted