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Spectrum Protect (Server)

CCU Checker enhancement

Enhance the blocking feature of CCU Checker so that it can distinctly handle update errors when there is a risk of severe impact to hosts and volumes. Handle errors with methods that prevent any circumvention without IBM second level approval.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

REST API Certificate Renewals for Hydra

In a large enterprise environment we have many certificates that need to be renewed. This additional functionality to the REST API will allow customers to automate the renewals of the management console certificates.
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

We hope IBM will also create a system configuration guide for us.

This time, I selected the TS4300 for convenience.My request applies to all storage hardware products. In Japan, computer equipment manufacturers create guides called "System Configuration Guides." These documents explain what is required to connec...
4 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library Under review

now ibm csi issue job to gui, gui only has 16 threads to handle it, in some condition it is very slow, gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task

gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

Need Ability to use a single CA signed certificate for Multiple DS8K HMCs.

A separate certificate for each HMC is a productvity and security issue as certificates must be updated frequently.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Enhance the Policy Engine to process newline chars (0x0A) in path names.

We run GHI over Storage Scale for user file systems and have to cope with all sorts of path names. GHI makes use of the policy engine for data movement (migration, purging). We think that any path name working in (core) Storage Scale has also to b...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

Reintroduce NVMe/FC Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

The IBM Block Storage CSI driver previously supported NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) connectivity, however, this support was discontinued in newer versions of the driver. NVMe/FC is a critical protocol for clients running latency-sensitive work...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Global Search of Storage Protect Servers from DRS

Add as a capability in DRS for any connected Storage Protect server.
4 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) Under review

Adding a new volume to a parent volume group containing a snapshot that a thin-clone volume group was created from should automatically add the volume to the thin-clone VG when that VG is refreshed from a new snapshot taken from the parent VG.

Since the thin-clone VG is tied to the snapshot of the parent, if you add LUNs to the parent and create a new snapshot and then refresh the thin-clone from the new snapshot, it seems logical that you would want the thin-clone VG to also have the n...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Enable remote Clusters to connect at all local interfaces

For security or performance reasons the network is divided into different zones, either to isolate different tenants or to separate different types of network traffic. To enable multitenancy, a Storage Scale Cluster should be able to serve multipl...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

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