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Use Fusion master nodes as host for IBM Cloud Satellite master nodes

If you currently use Fusion HCI as host platform for IBM Cloud Satellite you will use the Fusion HCI worker nodes. This results in a underutilization of the Fusion HCI Master nodes. By enabling the IBM Cloud Satellite location master nodes on the ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Azure HCI support for SPP

Hallo Please consider support for Azure HCI.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GPFS supports parameters to control the memory of pmcollector

Status: Excessive memory occupy
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Automatic ingest for new tapes

I want to load new tapes into I/O slots and have them automatically moved into available slots based on function (data tape or cleaning tape). Right now, at least one magazine must be fully removed to add new tapes.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Future consideration

qos support dio

qos support dio
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Excluding virtual mount points from backups

Need option to exclude the virtual mount points from backups
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Add all of the information in the ACTLOG receiver events to the SYSLOG receiver destination

The activity log receiver receives events of the format04/24/2020 08:02:06 ANR2017I Administrator TSMADMIN issued command: ASFDASF (SESSION: 773) but the syslog receiver receives events of the format2020-04-24T08:02:06 dsmserv[14887]: UVIC_ADM4: A...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

You should be able to configure notification of user password expiration.

A frequent problem I have is that the ESS GUI user accounts expire and I have to get them reset. It would be useful if you could set up e-mail notifications that an account is about to expire. My organization does this .... when my password is wit...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

CSM TOCHECK ON HDS HYPERSWAP that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source LCUs

CSM team confirmed that per current design there is a check made by CSM that one source LCU has no more than 4 target, but there is not a check made into the opposite direction that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

update ffdc to gather more information

Please enhance "ffdc ALL" to gather all logfiles that are needed by IBM support and development.Currently there are several debug logs not included that require support staff to request with instructions.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

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