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Policy Based Replication Allow rename of volumes into a volume group with replication policy assigned

We sometime need to rename a volume because it makes things cleared when you want to add other volumes or other vlume groups. For the moment, as soon as a policy is applied, the rename of a volume inside a volume group is not possible. Could you p...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Needs more information

add option for the tgtread status

We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

Add metadata entry to a file to be able to know when it was last recalled

This would make ik possible to leave a file premigrated for a defined time period.
19 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Spectrum Scale CNSA - add more configuration options to cluster CRD

During our implementation phase of Spectrum Scale CNSA on OpenShift clusters we identify that current options in the cluster CRD are not sufficient for various use-cases. So it will be great to configure at least number of replicas and resources f...
28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Additional OS Support for Storage Defender Sensors

IBM Storage Defender includes Sensors that are invented by IBM Research and are first active AI-backed threat detection against malware filesystem activity tye of sensors in market. The additional file-level ransomware active threat detection prov...
5 months ago in Storage Defender 2 Future consideration

DS8K - Copy Services - Mirroring Path GUI improvement

Currently in the Copy Services menu the 'mirroring path' reports the current secondary site with a wrong status. As visible in the attached screen print (visible here: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DS80-I-270), only the current prim...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Is a defect

Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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