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consolidated ticket overview

In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

Support Flexgroup volumes in containerpools

NDMP Backup of Netapp-Flexgroup should be supported to container pools. Flexvol is supported and working, but Flexgroup are denied because of different magic in the header (EA6C vs. EA6D).
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

IBM SP4C - Automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process

Customer has requested the ability for IBM SP4C to automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process. While the current restore functionality works, it does not automatically restores tabs to their previous state, requiring users t...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 1 Under review

SP4C - Backing up Google Meet recordings & logs

The customer is considering SP4C to manage backups of Google Meet recordings and logs as part of their information governance strategy. As Meet recordings are typically stored in the organizer's Google Drive, the customer intends to utilize SP4C a...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

Fusion Data Foundation as a Service on ROSA

There are many OpenShift use cases on ROSA. If we can provide Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as a Service on ROSA, that will be useful solution for those cloud users. Such a cloud user usually don't want to install Software by themselves, they basic...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

SP4C - Enhancement to the SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to match with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

IBM FlashSystems using PBR is readonly on the AIX Hosts. Cannot send any IO to the luns so the AIX host is failing the paths.

IBM FlashSystems using PBR is no IO (No read or write) on the Mirror/DR side impacting operation procedures on the AIX Hosts. They cannot send any IO to the luns so the AIX host is failing the Paths. Validate the paths are clean by doing a healthc...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

There is a need for the Call Home functionality to be managed from Storage Insights.

Customers are reporting a need (due to security teams) for Call Home requests to be fully handled by Storage Insight, not by FlashSystem arrays
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

Please add ability to select individual VMDKs for inclusion, excluding all unselected VMDKs

When configuring a Protection Group with a standardized configuration of the OS partition being on HDISK1, it is easier to select that one VMDK for inclusion rather than have to exclude all other VMDKs. Over time, VM configurations may change and ...
5 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

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