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    Integration with Storage Insights

    Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 13 Planned for future release

    Support for vApp options during restoration

    We noticed that after a restore, vapp Options are disabled with the loss of the settings which was previously defined on these vapp options.
    10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    Allow PVCs to use storage class with waitForFirstConsumer volumeBindingMode during restore operation

    In multi-availability zone (AZ) environments, when a PVC is created with the volumeBindingMode set to Immediate, it is pre-created within a random availability zone. When the pod is created later to consume it, if it is not created in the same AZ,...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environment.

    Incorporating IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environments would significantly enhance functionality. This enhancement would enable clients curr...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

    Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Provide new LI REQ knob to choose the old and the new Premig method

    At the code level lower than R5.0 PGA1, it uses old Premig method. Number of simultaneous Premigs becomes the maximum when total data size in Premig queue is larger than PMPRIOR. At R5.0PGA1 or higher code level, it uses new Premig method. Number ...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Support modern SSO protocols

    TS4500 only supports LDAP & Kerberos, this request is for integration with SSO using modern protocols such as SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and/or OIDC.
    6 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Automate Fusion and OpenShift upgrades and cluster release via RedFish APIs

    Reducing time to deploy new OpenShift clusters in Fusion and upgrade both OpenShift and Fusion via RedFish APIs could help increase deployment tasks and reduce human errors
    3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

    Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Enable inline compression of files at ingestion for IBM Storage Scale

    Our client needs to have the option to compress some well-known files inline, at ingestion -first write- time. Their goal is to enable this compression on the gpfs clients. They use remote-mounts to connect to their gpfs filesystems (having ESS as...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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