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Add Expand capability for fully allocated hyperswap volumes

Recently an option was added (8.4?) to FlashSystem software (Storwize) allowing easy expansion of in-use Hyperswap volumes through the GUI. An unfortunate restriction of this for us was that it cannot be used with fully allocated hyperswap volumes...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Get Red Hat to work with Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

Enhancements to Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should be made, and certification steps undertaken with Red Hat such that it is listed - preferably as the top product - on Red Hat's web site for RHOS and RH Virtualisation vendors. Currently Re...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Improve CLI security

Today (TS4500 release 1.8.x.x), role permissions modified with the CLI are only honored by Web UI users. CLI users do not honor the modified permissions, only the standard permissions inherited by the original role are applied.
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

insert more than two media categories/types for logical volumes

Today there are only two media categories available for defining logical volumes in an IBM VTS - Media Type Cartidge System Tape and Enhanced Cartridge. But you can define the volumes as 400MB, 800MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 25GB in the library. Since w...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

include ABRT packages in EMS repos

It is common for support to ask for a core or ABRT report as part of in depth troubleshooting of particularly nasty Scale System component issues. Currently those ABRT packages are not included in the repositories packaged with the EMS node and it...
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Add Support for IBM Spectrum Scale SafeguardCopy in Spectrum Protect as enhanced Cybercrime Solution for the Spectrum Protect Server Platform

In the area of cyberattacks its necessary to enhance the data-security in Spectrum Protect Installations. These attacks are coming. If we can immplement the scale safeguard Copy function in an spectrum protect installation for our GPFS Conf, DB, l...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Customization of LDAP authentication in Spectrum Protect software

When using Spectrum Protect Plus with LDAP authentication, the group parameter that is queried is hard coded (objectClass=group).This objectClass "group" is not present on all LDAP servers.Please allow customization of group attribute (like object...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow the ability to run a report that will provide the differences between two policies

I need to track all of the customizations between the default policies and the custom ones. Right now, I need to document that by hand. It would be far better to be able to run a report and have it provide the information. I also could see the use...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Three site Async Replication - Spectrum Virtualize

The customer requirement consists of an application that needs to be in a 3-way async replication configuration between their 3 data centers which are outside of Sync distances.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration