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Chained Scheduled Tasks Return "Rolled Up" Status to API

Currently, when the API is used to call a Scheduled Task, the API return code is based solely on the result of that task. Thus, if we have a Task that calls another task upon success, and the subsequent task fails, the API will always return a suc...
about 20 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

CSM SGC backup count reporting

Enhance CSM to provide comprehensive reporting and alerting for SGC backups, improving visibility into backup health and recoverability. This capability will help operations and support teams proactively monitor backup status and identify risks
11 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Safeguarded Copy Automation for Data Validation, IPL, Data Validation and Customer Notification

I would like to see automation added to CSM to move a SGC backup to Recovery volumes and then trigger an IPL for the Data Validation process that is vital to Ransomware protection. I also want CSM to monitor all of the started tasks from the IPL t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Storage Connecton with certificate

Currently the connection to Storage System is based on user+password credential; it is advisable to have the authentication via user+certiificate.
3 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

IBM TS4500 Tape Library with FIPS 140-3 Support

Dear IBM Team, We need your help & support to enable the FIPS 140-3 support with TS4500 + LTO9 + GLKM. Thanks & Regards
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

CSM Heap Usage Monitoring

In mixed storage environments where a single CSM instance manages multiple sessions, especially with SGC, administrators do not have real-time visibility into current Java heap utilization. As a result, there is no reliable way to determine whethe...
13 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration
210 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System Future consideration

partition-specific CLI prompt

starting with 9.1.1 we can connect to individual partitions. when doing so thru ssh the CLI prompt (PS1) still shows the full controller's name. it would be very handy to have the partition's name displayed here. especially if you're operating on ...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Fusion HCI with SAN HBAs for Fusion Access

Fusion Access enables customers to use their existing SAN Block-Storage on OpenShift with our gpfs filesystem, which has significant advantages over block based CSI drivers!Unfortunately, this is only supported on Fusion SDS, as Fusion HCI does no...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

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