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[Copy] Open AOS for TS4500 and TS770 via TSSC REST API Call

(I have opened this case in the TS4500 product area because I cannot select the TSSC (TS3000) in the product area in the IDEAS portal) We want to open AOS (Assist on Site) access via a REST API call to automate and speed up internal processes. The...
2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Under review

Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

Allow longer volume names - use shorter mapping names - in storage protect snapshot

Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controller production source vol...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Under review

Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Check update recommendations against the configuration of the system before notifying the user

Today the GUI for a FlashSystem/SVC will notify a user of a new code release of Storage Virtualize, but it does not take the specific configuration of the machine into consideration. Before you actually do an upgrade, the tool called CCU checker i...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Enhance RESTful API to be able to pull user group data

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. User group information: - Remote mappings and the roles they are assigned.
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Allow IBM Fusion Backup to continue if PVCs disappear during the backup process

In a very volatile machine learning environment, PVCs are created and deleted frequently, controlled by the containerized application when users create or delete projects within the application. Let’s call these PVCs “User Project Volumes”. It hap...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Once a code upgrade begins, we should block Customers DS GUI logins with a "banner" stating code upgrade is in "progress".

Clients, especially new ones who are not familiar with DS8000 tend to get upset when they are attempting to access the DS GUI during a microcode upgrade and find that they cannot. This will alleviate a great deal of frustration and uncertainly for...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review