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Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
5 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

Provide last login time / date via DSCLI lookup

This is a requirement for audit purposes to be able to provide a list of users with last login date via a feed from the DSCLI. Currently you can get this information via the GUI but we can't get it via the DSCLI commands which is a requirement in ...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Integration with Storage Insights

Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3

Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Storage Insights should support the creation of hosts for NVMe-attached devices.

Storage Insights does not currently support the creation ofhosts for NVMe-attached devices.It needs to include the hosts that are zoned with the NVME protocol in addition to the SAN Capacity (GiB) field.
10 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Prevent TERMINATE of practice disks if a volume is online

In a session with practice disks, can you add an option to prevent TERMINATE if at least one of the practice disks is online please ?
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Need better job and resource management feature to avoid multiple simultaneous job start upon SPP restart after unexpected outage

The current IBM Storage Protect Plus design makes that, upon appliance restart after an unexpected outage, all pending jobs are started simultaneously. This can overwhelm the appliance available resouces if numerous jobs are pending. As an example...
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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