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Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
13 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights. Also there are multiple KVM offerings available, which can be evaluated to add support in Storage Insights.
6 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Support for native velero v1.14 backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

Currently Velero v1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] and IBM are currently not supporting this. To support this code changes to storage protect object agent side are needed.
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

AI Based Replication Window Recommendation to Avoid Load on IBM Storage Protect Server

There can be situations when source and target replication servers are not in sync. Causing delay in replication process to end. May be because the specific window of replication used was not enough to replicate source data to target server. Or th...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Graphical topology view VM -> datstore -> ESX -> Storage lun -> IBM FS9500 array.

vCenter, Hosts, and Virtual Machines associated can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu table. If user clicks on a specific virtual machine, then under “Internal/Virtual Machine/ Related resources” panel it gives details about HBA, Driv...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor performance utilization. If a Datastore is performing too much IO, Add a mechanism to drill down to specific VM causing the performance impact within that datastore.

Once vCenter is registered using “Add vCenter” successfully, corresponding hosts and virtual machines are listed (and can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu option). If user choose a particular “Virtual Machine “ it gives details , esp...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

dsmadmc login prompt when using MFA

When logging in to dsmadmc having MFA activated on the account you do not get any indication on the password prompt that this is active. Suggestion either have a message that you need to enter password plus mfa code Or Rather Present the mfa passw...
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

Frame swap challenge when using Delayed Premigration. I call it "Autonomic prepare of frame swap when using Delay Premigration”

Below idea is related to frame swap from old TS7700T subsystem to new TS7700T. Meaning virtual tape having a backend Tape Library(ie TS4500) and backend Pdrives/Pvols. When preparing frame swap, due to hardware renewal, you need to be well prepare...
25 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Under review

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...
23 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Under review

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