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    TS4300 Deep Archive Support

    I would like to request Deep Archive support for TS4300 by 4Q 2025.　Deep Archive support for TS4300 is required for implementation in the customer's PoC environment.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    Add clip functionality to ZCPYS / CSM

    Add functionality to ZCPYS and/or CSM to enable the clip of the VSN prefix on any flashcopy session. For example - we take a FlashCopy of a system with a VSN prefix of VA. Use ZCPYS to change the VSN prefix on the Flash Copy session from VA to VQ ...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

    The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Threat Detection for Ceph

    IBM FlashSystem has RTD based on FCM4, Defender uses Sensor (in file-system) to detect threats. We should have similar functions in Ceph to detect and report an early attack.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

    DS8K - Multiple local user support when AD/LDAP is configured

    In DS8K - post configuration of AD/LDAP, it allows only one user in addition to LDAP users. Since we have local users created for different purposes (for e.g. CSM replication user, Spectrum Controller user, Monitoring tool integration users, Servi...
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

    Configuration: Replica source Storage is container pool only Copy pool exist on tape Replica target Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days Copy pool exist on tape Scenario When the source detects a bad file/object with a...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Allow Rest Logins Audit msg to be deactivated

    If we check every 10 mins drive state, we get 144 login and 144 logout messages in the event logs of the library. The minimum would be the allow a API user creation who can only read for example and for whom one can deactivate then msg or similar....
    5 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Assign an alias right at instance creation

    When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Needs more information

    Allow Rescheduling of Snapshot Policy on Volume Group

    Sometimes we need to change when a snapshot policy is scheduled for a given volume group. Currently you have to unassing the old policy, and reassign it giving a new time.
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    API Enhancement for GET /v1/pools

    The API queries for GET /v1/pools GET /v1/pools/{pool_id} We need to be able to see encryption status of the pool through the API query. it's very helpful if the queries were modified after the DSCLI command lsextpool -l.
    about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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