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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Deep Archive and Vaulting

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently include support for off-site or out-of-library tape vaulting . Although this functionality is not used on a daily basis, it could be very useful for customers who need to export ca...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Future consideration

Deep Archive and QoS at bucket level

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support QoS. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring bandwidth throttling applied at bucket level, and would greatly increase the adoption of this technol...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Future consideration

Multi-factor authentication for Storage Deep Archive

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support Multi-factor authentication for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind security enhancement, and would greatly i...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Future consideration

Ability to restore an Oracle DB to a single host in a RAC cluster

Basically, we need to be able to select one member of a cluster as a restore destination.
9 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Allow Rest Logins Audit msg to be deactivated

If we check every 10 mins drive state, we get 144 login and 144 logout messages in the event logs of the library. The minimum would be the allow a API user creation who can only read for example and for whom one can deactivate then msg or similar....
9 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Daily System Check using Ansible

In an effort to automate our DS8k-environment with Ansible we are looking into automating our daily system check where we see if there is any physical drives in a failed status. The current process is done via DSCLI and generates a report manually...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Implementation of AOS Control via Ansible

As per security requirement AOS must be closed and should only be opened when there is a reason for it. Like IBM Support working on machines or in case of any defects. In these cases, the control center gets involved and sometimes people who are n...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

Include IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

The logical volume is stuck mounting due to an interrupted operation (job abort, LPAR IPL, or other disruptive action taken on the host side for various reasons). In this case, ITAU would like to know WHICH volume was left mounted and requires operator intervention (either via host or MI) to unload it and prevent future job errors with CBR4196D-67 (Requested volume already in use). Regarding ITAU's request to be informed of which level is causing the CBR3750I G0032 message, since it is still mounted: This would be a new function request (nonexistent at current code levels). It is not a code defect.

Why are we seeing CBR3750I G0032_Informational_C_ TS7700_XX_ copies queued for more than 24 hours? The logical volume is stuck mounting due to an interrupted operation (job abort, LPAR IPL, or other disruptive action taken on the host side for var...
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Deep Archive Integration with Microsoft Entra ID

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support integration with Microsoft Entra ID for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind of integration, and would greatly...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Future consideration

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