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    hardware inventory report in Storage Insights

    Kindly build mechanism to have one click hardware inventory report for assets configured for Storage Insights. No tool available in IBM portfolio to pull inventory of all assets configured.
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Submitted

    SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

    SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

    GNR needs to be supported outside ESS

    Since Spectrum Scale is a Software Defined Storage product, we would need to support GNR outside of Elastic Storage Server.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Support larger tape ranges in the Selective Device Access Control tape range table

    The SDAC tape range table supports 50 entries total. A range of A00000-A99999 covers 100K tape volumes. My client uses letters in the second position of the tape volser (A-Z). I have to enter a range such as AA0000-AA9999 (covers 10K tape volumes)...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Firmware Check

    System: TS4500Actor: Customer Commerzbank is asking for enhancements regarding library firmware check.Case was opened on behalf of client Commerzbank as a follow up for a critical situation.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Create a hidden command to allow a change for the number of concurrent SSH connections to SVC/FlashSystem

    The current limits of SVC/FlashSystem software to the admin connection limit the ability to run ansible playbooks and/or ssh automations during cluster migrations and can limit the ability to automate failovers of a large number of systems during ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Improve dsmulog logfile handling

    Because the Storage Agent (STA) is not issuing all its messages to the SP server it is connecting to, we are redirecting the STA output (console) to file at STA startup. This is not optimal as the STA is not adding date and time to the messages wh...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    AFM: Primary AFM Gateway is selected from one of gateway nodes in afm target map definitions

    For AFM-RO use case, currently afmGateway accepts all or a single primary gateway. Please provide another option where the afmGateway is chosen amongst the nodes defined in the afm target map definition
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Signed kernel modules for Ubuntu 24.04

    Signed kernel modules, as delivered for RHEL, is necessary to run Ubuntu servers with Secure Boot enabled.
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Allow Replication Partnership via secondary management interface

    We run a MS and need to onboard customers, sometimes, via replication.Our primary mgmt interface is used for internal replication and is completely out of bound from customer networks. Allowing the establishment of replication partnerships over th...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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