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Webhook support for more than ransomware alerts

It could be useful to have Storage Insights able to push events details to third-party URL whenever an alert is raised or when any event is triggered. This would push the integration of Storage Insights further with ticketing or any other event ma...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Provide a resource to verify PGP Keys in SW Packages (e.g. B/A Client)

The SW Packages usually contain a specific PGP key to check validity of the downloaded package. Unfortunately, these keys are changed/replaced without any announcement. By this, customers do not know if the PGP key he has is valid or manipulated. ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Virtual Host Style addressing support for CES S3

Virtual Host Style addressing (https://bucket.my-s3-server.com) is the preferred S3 addressing option for AWS - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Scale CES S3 does not support this out-of-the box yet. Wi...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

IBM Callhome for Node Reboot

IBM node panic Rebooted on 09/17, but no callhome generated to IBM(TS017220322) In event of Node reboots due to any bug may go unnoticed if the node comes up within 30 mins. Fidelity would like to generate a callhome to IBM and a case should open ...
14 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

'mmdf Device -h' for Human Readable Output

I'm used to do 'df -h' on linux operating systems to get human readable output. With 'mmdf' I have to use 'mmdf Device --block-size=auto' for human readable output, which is a bit unhandy for me. My suggestion is, to invent 'mmdf device -h' for hu...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Improve LTO9 Optimization Process

The (wizard) process to OPTIMIZE LTO 9 Media is a painful long process that does not allow the library or drives not involved in the optimization to be used. We would like to see an improvement not only in the time it takes to optimize the media (...
3 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 9 Under review

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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