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Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Support for RHEL9 for Storage Protect Server

RHEL 8 is more than 5 years old. RHEL 9 was already released more than 2 years ago (was officially released on May 17, 2022), It would be a good idea to add it as Operating System for Storage Protect Server.
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

'mmdf Device -h' for Human Readable Output

I'm used to do 'df -h' on linux operating systems to get human readable output. With 'mmdf' I have to use 'mmdf Device --block-size=auto' for human readable output, which is a bit unhandy for me. My suggestion is, to invent 'mmdf device -h' for hu...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add support for reverse flashcopy with HyperSwap volumes

Currently a reverse flashcopy (restore) is not supported to a HyperSwap volume. The request is to be able to do a restore of a flashcopy to a hyperswap volume.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Add support for Cisco MDS SAN Switches running NX-OS

All (I know) current Cisco MDS Switches run Nexus based NX-OS. We have MDS9132T and MDS9148T switches which seems to not be supportet in Storage Insights. Please add support for this Switches. Thank you.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Restrict TSM admin users

Please find a way to restrict TSM admin users to VIEW ONLY. In order to use third party monitoring software and use admin credential for TSM view only (admin schedule results, stg pools etc)
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Extend PBR command set

Currently PBR has some "limited" set of command available, because the idea was to keep it simple and more automatic possible. Some customer which are exploring PBR, believe that having the chance to "STOP" and "START" a VG replication w/o necessa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 - Aligned cryptographic support for TLS

Regardless of the interface I'm using on TS7700 or TSSC, the TLS support must be the same on all interfaces like HTTPS and RYSLOG. All of them must be kept in synch and up to date (which is nowadays TLS1.3). Currently there is a mixture of possibl...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

DS8880 - Increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server to 512

Sicoob is requesting IBM's support for to increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server and DS8880 to 512, once on VMware side this support is possible.
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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