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Related to SafeGuarded Copy on the DS8000. SGC backup copies CANNOT be deleted. Today, a person with adminstrator rights can still log on and delete off valid SGC backup copies. Customers have been asking for this capability to be removed.

This feature is required to ensure that SGC is totally immutable.
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Functionality already exists

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...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

DS8900 SYSLOG does not log severity

Even though events can be sent to syslog, it is useless because it does not include the severity (information, warning, error), which makes it very hard/impossible to automate.
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 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...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

More email options from Operations Center such as To, CC and BCC

Currently Operations Center is sending emails thru the BCC option and no way to make it send using the To or CC email options. It is very helpful in a colaborative environment to know where these emails go and who should be contacted so BCC will s...
26 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Enhance Install-Toolkit to add Firewall configuration support for rhel9

Our current rhel9 Systems that are provisioned has firewalld system service actice bei default. This generate a requirement to define the nessacary firewall roules for scale.These are our current cmd's that we used: firewall-cmd --add-port=10080/t...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "legacy" 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...
15 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
6 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Leverage Storage Scale CNSA shallow copy volumes for Fusion Backup

When using Fusion Backup & Restore to create external backup copies of Storage Scale based PVCs in Openshift (Scale CNSA or Fusion GDP), temporary volumes are created from snapshots and mounted to data movers. These volumes are full copies of ...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review