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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

'Storage System Maintenance Information' view: show more service details in 'Earliest Service Expiration' column to get a quicker overview.

We discussed this esp in context of Expert Care Support - show 'Expert Care Basic - Active' , 'Expert Care Advanced - Active' or 'Expert Care Premium - Active' instead of just 'Expert Care - Active'. This would help clients with a large SI instanc...
11 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Optimizations to the Spectrumscale ansible installer for larger clusters

For large clusters we are finding that it is taking a rather long time to run. We are looking for optimization like skipping unneeded checks and/or more parallelization for better performance and minimize customer downtime upgrade windows. One are...
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Prometheus metrics for Fusion Backup and Restore Service operations

Fusion currently exposes a limited set of Prometheus metrics for backup and restore operations. While sufficient for basic monitoring, these metrics do not provide enough detail for production-grade observability. Problem Statement: The current Pr...
22 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Email notifications for individual sessions

Currently email notifications only have the ability to send a broad range of information. We'd like the ability to set it so email notifications can be sent for set sessions so only the information for that session is sent out. i.e. the failed or ...
about 23 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Submitted

Custom Certificates for DSCLI

For many years our DS8000 environment has been getting internally flagged as being a security risk. This is because it's seeing the certificate presented on ports 1751/1756 as self signed by IBM. This idea would be to add the ability to replace th...
1 day ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

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...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Submitted

Strengthening TS7700 and TSSC Access Security with Multi‑Factor Authentication

With increased scrutiny on information security, it is essential to enforce stronger access controls for TS7700 and TSSC systems by implementing Multi‑Factor Authentication (MFA). Enabling MFA will significantly enhance security by ensuring robust...
2 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

TS7700 SETTING enhancement to control Copy Queue count and Size alerting

This capability would allow customers to tune settings to trigger alert based on workload requirements like vounts and size and receive alerts as soon as replication issues occur. The current 24‑hour delayed‑copy alerting message code G0032 does n...
2 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

High‑Availability Enhancement for TS7700 Microcode Maintenance

Eliminating planned downtime would deliver a best‑in‑class user experience for TS7700 customers, comparable to the DS8000 series. Currently, downtime is required because the TS7700 architecture relies on a single controller, which must be taken of...
2 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics

Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics I have discussions with the clients who have high-density Microsoft Hyper-V environments. The Hyper-V leverages Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to optimize storage performance. While we can c...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

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