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Non-disruptive migrate between storage classes

Need the ability to non-disruptively (or minimally disruptive) migrate data between storage classes. Needs to be fully automated with the user simply selecting the source PV and target storage class. Use Cases: Replace storage provider such as exi...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

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 ...
2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

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

One common use of S3 lifecycle policies is to automatically delete objects after a specified period. For instance, businesses can set up a policy to delete temporary files or logs older than 90 days, ensuring that unnecessary data does not clutter...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Multiple namespaces managing policy assignments via labels

Currently Fusion provides the ability to add namespaces manually via UI or CR. In a customer scenario where namespaces are dynamically created or deleted, they want the ability to manage the policy assignment of these namespaces via labels. Custom...
14 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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

Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

SPP: Get SQL backup amount via REST API / report

I would like to have possibility in SPP to get correct backup amount (frontend size) for each client. Just for clarification frontend amount should be base backup + all transfer sizes before deduplication and compression. Actual build-in reports a...
14 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
28 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review