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Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
about 2 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Launch Defender Licensing calculator service to enable self-service license planning

There's a need to launch a Defender Licensing calculator service within the platform to increase transparency and enable self-service for Defender customers The information and platform is already available within IBM and IBM Ecosystem organizatio...
1 day ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...
about 2 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
about 1 hour ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) should be differentiate between real HOST-Connections issues vs. a planned shut down from one or more HOST systems.

Starting with CSM 6.3.10 IBM has introduced his Multi Sysplex Support (feature 87578b). With this feature are several resilience topics addressed to make the tool less prone to incorrect operation. One decision that has been made, for example, is ...
4 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Storage Scale - Rest API for file system defragmentation

With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our GPFS file systems are getting larger and larger. We know that disk fragmentation within a file system is an unavoidable condition. As time goes by, the space occupied by file sys...
14 minutes ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enhance REST API Export a log file with keyword: latest

it would be useful to extend the GET /v1/logs/<filename>/export command so that you could enter a 'latest'-Tag as filename for example and then the ‘most recent - completed’ log is exported. GET /v1/logs/latest/export -> Exports the most ...
about 7 hours ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Submitted

In Fusion HCI console, under backups, there must be an option to delete one or more backups

It's useful, because of quick management of the backups, usable for anyone.
13 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Support for snapshot based Hyper-V backup on Windows 2025

Planning of upgrade to Hyper-V on Windows 2025 needs support to protect the data via snapshots.
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

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