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IBM block storage CSI driver, increase ssh connections on FlashSystem

Who benefits: OpenShift customers with one FlashSystem, but more than one Openshift Cluster How it should work: the FlashSystem Software should increase the number of SSH connections. This enable customers to use a single FlashSystem as a Storag...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

IBM FUSION DATA FOUNDATION - ROUTE SERVICES

Banco do Brasil provisioned CP4D using the IBM Fusion Data Foundation essentials that they are entitled. Due to a client policy, it's prohibited to use the default cluster name to route services that are run from the cluster. So, it's required to ...
10 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

DS8000 Safeguarded Copy (SGC) offload to TS7700 VTL

DS8000 users are driving multiple Safeguarded Copy (SGC) cycles per day - and are keeping many days worth of those SGC copies on the DS8000... but many have also expressed wanting to keep 'more' copies on TS7700 VTL. For example, perhaps making a ...
28 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

Add an option to the Backup Object Manager (backom) Online full restore command to restore both data and log files together, ensuring rollforward succeeds

Current Behaviour: The Backup Object Manager (backom) full restore command is restoring only datafiles, which causes the rollforward operation to fail. Risk: Logs must be extracted separately, and this process will take as long as performing a ful...
9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP Submitted

SESSION REFUSED - CLIENT IS DOWN-LEVEL WHEN SESSIONINITIATION SERVERONLY IS USED

Hello support team! I hope you are well! I raise this PMR because it seems we are hitting - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT25298 - IT25298: ANR0428W SESSION REFUSED - CLIENT IS DOWN-LEVEL WHEN SESSIONINITIATION SERVERONLY IS USED. Short ...
about 2 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Additional parameters for DSCLI command lspprcpath

The current sitution is, that it is not possible to list directly PPRC paths by state (Failed, Success, Degraded, Invalid) or by failed reason.Therefore, it would be great, to add these selection parameters to the lspprcpath command (e.g. -state f...
14 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System Submitted

Inhibit reclaim schedules should respect local time instead of UTC.

Inhibit reclaim schedules are using UTC time. We have two times a year a time shift for summer time/normal time. After every time shift, the inhibit reclaim schedules are shifted one hour back or forward, because it always respects the UTC times. ...
8 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

Timezone to be shown in log entries for security and system events

Customer recently had an internal security audit for Virtualize 9.1. One of their findings was to ask for the timezone to be shown in the log entries.
10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

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...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

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