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One authentication for a group of Dual Operator Notifications actions, such as disabling multiple scheduled tasks

Currently we have 100+ scheduled tasks for CSM SGC backups. As we have Dual Operator enabled, this currently creates a Notification for each task. Would it be possible to group this type of action together to Approve as currently the overhead is s...
4 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

Able to monitor and set maintenance mode on external services such as GKLM servers or other dependencies in GPFS GUI and via CLI/REST-API.

If you have two or more GKLM servers connected to your IBM Storage Scale cluster there is no way to via GPFS GUI disable warnings from GKLM servers (At least not in a user friendly way that I know about) . So when you do maintenance on one of your...
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enable replication server in the same AIX cluster as the SP

The client has an SP server mounted on a two-node AIX PowerHA cluster.When there is a failover, the SP service reloads from Node 1 to Node 2.The client backs up OCP (Openshift) with IBM Fusion Backup. To store the data, a Directory-type STGPool ha...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.

Defender Data Protect backup all Kubernetes OpenShift namespaces

Openshift namespaces which starts with a preffix "openshift-" are system namespaces and usually they do not contain any persistent volume claim or any significant YAML object which can't be reproduce on another cluster. On the other hand, there is...
5 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Launch Defender Licensing calculator service to enable self-service license planning

There's a need to launch a Defender Licensing calculator service within the platform to increase transparency and enable self-service for Defender customers The information and platform is already available within IBM and IBM Ecosystem organizatio...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Adding multipath support for FC backup

One of our customers has Cohesity cluster (12 nodes - Dell PowerEdge 760XL). Each server has 1 HBA (32Gb) with 2 ports and it`s connected to 2 Cisco switches (according to Cohesity recommendations). The problem is all my 12 nodes working through 1...
18 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

GCP Object Lock support

Backups immutability feature by using google cloud object locking. Add GCP to a large list of already compatible object storage sources: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-object-storage-support
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...

increase total volume limit

the total limit today is Basic volumes per system: 15,864 we already hitting this limit with only 970 volumes. we have svc Stretched Mode and we are trying to do safeguard copy 7 generation snapshot and we are hitting the limit (1 snap every morni...
7 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted