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Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

Add the ability to use more"custom tag" fields with a tag manager

We are all familiar with the Custom Tag1, Custom Tag2, and Custom Tag3 fields but many of us find ourselves needing more tags for advanced filtering or for an ideal place to keep up with common attributes. The new GUI seems to have this as a place...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Create PBR relationship from Replication ports - and not from Management Port 1only.

We are replacing Netapp Storage at customer which has 2 sites. They are doing replication between the 2 sites on dedicated layer2 network. We have FS5300, with 2 ports dedicated to replication , why the PBR must be configure from the primary manag...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Implementing purging algorithms

Protection > Recoveries view will not be purged, only some detail information for recovery tasks older than a month.
13 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Integration of a detailed, consolidated and exportable reporting feature for Fusion B&R across hub and spokes

I would like to suggest integrating detailed reporting into Fusion Backup & Restore, which can be exported as a CSV file, for example. In the Fusion UI and in OpenShift, some information about the applications on the hub cluster can be found u...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Defender Data Protect - File/Folder-level recovery of AIX file-based backups from tape-based external targets IBM Storage Protect

Current Limitation: Currently, file-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is either unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archive AIX objects using IBM Storage Protect. We request an enhancement of IBM Storage Defender ...
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

TDP support for SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 8 for SLES on Power

TDP for ERP 8.1.11 supports only SAP HANA 2.0 SPS7. Support for SPS8 needed, which is availible since Nov 2024.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Submitted

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