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IBM Spectrum Archve EE - One failed candidate (e.g. deleted) for migration causes whole migration task fail, space allocated, migration must be repeated

Migration task should finish successfully even any individual file fails (reason of failure could be that user deleted of changed file after start of migration), it helps to save drive time so no new re-migration is needed. If migration fails, spa...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Once a code upgrade begins, we should block Customers DS GUI logins with a "banner" stating code upgrade is in "progress".

Clients, especially new ones who are not familiar with DS8000 tend to get upset when they are attempting to access the DS GUI during a microcode upgrade and find that they cannot. This will alleviate a great deal of frustration and uncertainly for...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

AI Based Replication Window Recommendation to Avoid Load on IBM Storage Protect Server

There can be situations when source and target replication servers are not in sync. Causing delay in replication process to end. May be because the specific window of replication used was not enough to replicate source data to target server. Or th...
14 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Manual Tag Backups

If we setup TSM for VE we are normally backing up our VMs using VMware Tags, but the issue with VMware tags is that we need to setup temporary schedules to be able to test it or rerun a failing job.We want to be able to run the VMware Tag Backup u...
27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
6 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Leverage Storage Scale CNSA shallow copy volumes for Fusion Backup

When using Fusion Backup & Restore to create external backup copies of Storage Scale based PVCs in Openshift (Scale CNSA or Fusion GDP), temporary volumes are created from snapshots and mounted to data movers. These volumes are full copies of ...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

DS8900 SYSLOG does not log severity

Even though events can be sent to syslog, it is useless because it does not include the severity (information, warning, error), which makes it very hard/impossible to automate.
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Scale S3/Nooba tiering to tape

With the new capability S£/Nooba replacing S3/Swift we would use the Scale ILM capability to move buckets/filesets from disk to tape thanks to Storage Archive integration
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Being able to define an IP white listing to access the Defender Services DMS and DRS

DMS and DRS are SaaS based services which are widely accessible from the Internet. Although there are strong authentication, MFA and other security mechanism controlling the access, some clients are requesting the possibility to restrict access to...
6 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

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