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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...
7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3

Allow customer to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level

Allow customers to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level (admin, operator, etc) … The customer would like to adminstir the groups on th eDS8k exactly how it works in the Storage Manager GUI for the z/OS.
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

Support for snapshot based Hyper-V backup on Windows 2025

Planning of upgrade to Hyper-V on Windows 2025 needs support to protect the data via snapshots.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

increase total volume limit

the total limit today is Basic volumes per system: 15,864 we already hitting this limit with only 970 volumes. we have svc Stretched Mode and we are trying to do safeguard copy 7 generation snapshot and we are hitting the limit (1 snap every morni...
12 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Include environmental informations (humidity/temperature) into REST-API GET Drives and GET Library output

In order to ensure the operation of a TS4500 according to the defined environmental specifications, it must be possible to query these values directly without first collecting and evaluating drive logs and converting specific pages / hex codes to ...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

Object Lock for CES-S3

We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

To enable Almalinux OS support on IBM Defender.

The is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open source community-supported computing platform, and AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatibl...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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