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Segregate user account management function into a dedicated account and have the option to remove user account management from general privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor.

Providing a user management only account and restricting user management from other privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor. The aim it to segregate user account management role from that of general administrator role as part of se...
10 days ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library Future consideration

Segregate user account management function into a dedicated account and have the option to remove user account management from general privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor.

Providing a user management only account and restricting user management from other privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor. The aim it to segregate user account management role from that of general administrator role as part of se...
10 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Ability to select what to restore when the backup was created using a custom recipe

Only when restoring backups created with the default recipe (i.e., without explicitly specifying a custom recipe within the associated policy assignment) is it possible to choose before the restore whether to restore the missing etcd resources and...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion Needs more information

Disallow a CDM job to run if the same job is running.

The current CDM job for scanning will import disks/volume groups to an IBM AIX server, create NFS exports, NFS mount the jobs to the Linux Sentinel server and then run the IE scan on the mounted NFS disks. Once the scan is complete, the CDM proces...
2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

RADIUS Authentication Support and Expanded MFA Options for IBM FlashSystem

I'd like to propose adding support for authenticating FlashSystem arrays to an external RADIUS server. Increasingly, customers are requesting MFA implementations where the array authenticates via an open protocol like RADIUS to an external server,...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Needs more information

Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Submitted

have Spectrum Control as an appliance (ova package)

The uprade process to upgrade Spectrum Control to a newer version is too complex and fails all the time. Please consider deploying it as an appliance. An OVA package provides a pre-configured, optimized environment, reducing setup time from hours ...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

Add a projection of "free logical capacity" to the GUI

Add a projection of "free logical capacity" to the GUI (under the assumption, that the future compression factor will be similar to the existing one). The total logical capacity, as it is the "addressable limit" in case of very good compression re...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Supporting half-populated R760 nodes in CD mode (concentrated dispersal mode)

All generations of IBM COS hardware supported nodes with 12 disks in CD mode. We sold quite a few and when we need to replace them with newer generations (customers: Porsche Informatik, KSG, ...) we would need to have a solution similar to the exi...
11 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes Under review

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