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Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available: REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information. Since TS...
14 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

"Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
28 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Encryption on Metro/Global Mirror Link (FCP/PPRC)

It is currently an audit exposure if data is encrypted only at a rest. Clients are required to encrypt data in all physical media where the data transits and is stored, from the CPU to disk, and also from primary copy to all other copies where it ...
8 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
22 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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...
12 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Under review

Update Cognos Analytics to a more current version

At this moment with Spectrum Control 5.4.12.x the Cognos Analytics version offered via Passport Advantage is still version 11.2.1.Latest fixes for this Cognos version are from January 2022. Our security department is demanding that we fix a number...
5 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Enable IBM Block storage CSI driver to choose other than the default TCP port 22 when used with FlashSystem

Currently, IBM Block storage CSI driver interacts with FlashSystem devices via the default SSH port (TCP/22). Please provide a way to change the port usage. See the discussion on a Slack channel #get-help_CSi: https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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