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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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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...
6 months ago in Storage Defender 2 Future consideration

Support for "directory swapping" (RENAME_EXCHANGE) on Linux

I propose adding support for the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag for directory renames in Storage Scale, to enable atomic directory swaps. Linux around kernel v3.15 added the renameat2 syscall which supports the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag to atomically swap two di...
12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Unable to distinguish SI Pro trial from other SI Pro entitlements

Once the 60 day SI Pro trial is enabled, full feature SI Pro is available and there is nothing that allows you to distinguish that a trial is running and counting down. If the SI Pro license is upgraded during the trial period, there is nothing th...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Support for Microsoft Server 2025 - WinGet

The IBM Storage Protect BA Client for Windows uses a complex installation process. spinstall.exe handles C++ package installation, language-specific MST files, and a file-by-file structure. This creates problems for mass deployment on Windows Serv...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

PBHA/R limit: how much in use?

There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. It is not easy for a user to see how much can be added before that limit is reached . Can we provide this in GUI (or CLI). This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add FC ports (also non-host) to performance overview pane

Monitor the intersystem links, to have an immediate indication of replication or HA link problems.
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Have CDM support use DB_UNIQUE_NAME identifier for discovery of Oracle data guarded databases instead of DB_NAME (or as an alternative option)

Any customer using Oracle Data Guard would find this useful. All databases within a dataguard configuration must have the same db_name value, it's an Oracle requirement. In order to distinguish one database from another within the configuration, t...
about 2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 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...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

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