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Check update recommendations against the configuration of the system before notifying the user

Today the GUI for a FlashSystem/SVC will notify a user of a new code release of Storage Virtualize, but it does not take the specific configuration of the machine into consideration. Before you actually do an upgrade, the tool called CCU checker i...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Call home for Storage Defender

IBM Storage Defender does not yet have an integrated call home solution to send hardware logs to IBM Support and thus facilitate the replacement of defective equipment. In this case, I suggest creating a solution that identifies if the client is u...
7 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance RESTful API to be able to pull user group data

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. User group information: - Remote mappings and the roles they are assigned.
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Related to SafeGuarded Copy on the DS8000. SGC backup copies CANNOT be deleted. Today, a person with adminstrator rights can still log on and delete off valid SGC backup copies. Customers have been asking for this capability to be removed.

This feature is required to ensure that SGC is totally immutable.
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Functionality already exists

Efficient Deletion of Fileset backup data based on mmBackup per Fileset

We are running multi-petabyte Scale file systems in our HPC environment. User data is organized per project using independent filesets. The backup of user data is performed using mmBackup per fileset. For new projects, a new fileset is created. Wh...
15 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client com o Storage Protect 8.1.16 or posterior. Tivemos TS018215491 Quando vamos escolher o restore pela opção [ point in Time ] o mesmo da erro: ANS309E remote operation failed ...
15 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Allow IBM Fusion Backup to continue if PVCs disappear during the backup process

In a very volatile machine learning environment, PVCs are created and deleted frequently, controlled by the containerized application when users create or delete projects within the application. Let’s call these PVCs “User Project Volumes”. It hap...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

add graphs to reports

when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive

In Baidu hyper scale tape storage system, we met many cases that good tape cartridges is marked to bad status because of bad drive. For example, drive1 is bad, Archive EE still uses it to write or read data and get the error result, Archive EE wil...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration