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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 ?
about 16 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Addition of reclaimable space on lsvdiskanalysis and/or GUI volume properties

With the avenue of reclaim_se utility to automatically reclaim capacity of thin vdisks part of standard pools, clients are starting to ask support at times regarding the reclaimable capacity on their volumes. The command lsvdiskanalysis, from clie...
2 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Balanced usage of tape drive generations. Changing behaviour of librarymanager when selecting drive for tape mount.

The idea is: When using a specific format in a deviceclass, the tapedrives selection alogorithm should not discriminate tapedrives with higher capabilities In an environment with different tapedrive models (for example TS1155 and TS1160) but all d...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Under review

Password expire message on GUI

Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
9 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add LTFS EE support to Ceph based Distributed File System

A lot of cold data in Ceph based DFS need to migrate to Tape. The existing solution is backup/archive with backup software or put data via S3 interface to S3 based deep archive solution which is very complicated,no automation and no competitive pr...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
9 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add support for AlmaLinux OS

Almalinux is being used by several customers who are migrating from CentOS/RHEL to this new flavor. IBM Defender data protect does not currently support this OS.
25 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted
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mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

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