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    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

    Add ability to show data at rest is in encrypted and the encryption cipher via Rest API.

    We need this to be accessible via an API for audit requirements.
    about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

    We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Need support for Microsoft Authenticator as MFA

    Microsoft's MFA is a very popular MFA and with Microsoft's solution compassing all enterprise needs, even MFA capability are being adopted as standard in large clients. Hence this integration is being asked from 18 months. Please consider it on pr...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Needs more information

    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.
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Submitted

    Storage Insights to report power supply issues in FlashSystem

    Currently Storage Insights health status for a FlashSystem doesn't raise any alerts for power supply failure or power input issue. Everything shows green until the customer is notified via call-home or SNMP alerts set at the system level. The cust...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    ESXi 8.0.3 security scanning support form VMs with snapshots

    Quote from the documentation: Sentinel server with version 8.10 or higher can scan virtual machines on ESXi version 8.0.3. However, if those VMs have VMware snapshots, the host will not scan them. Sentinel server with version 8.9 or earlier can al...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    Implementation of DIMM error checking at IBM Storage Scale Systems

    It would be helpful to implement an DIMM error checking, which is raising a warning, when a memory DIMM is throwing to much errors.In the current ESS versions, we don't have such an checking in place. Massive recoverable DIMM errors will not be re...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Populate contact info for ticket creation from Storage Insights

    Current ticket creation workflow from SI relies on the user entering name, email, phone number for each ticket. This data is used to find a matching support contact to use for the case. The user might get confused when the support ticket ends up o...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    Disable attempts to cleanup IBM Flash array snapshots after Devender SAN backup/restore

    When the current version of Defender runs a backup or recovery operation for a SAN source, a snapshot will be created of the configured storage, the backup/recovery operation completed and then a cleanup of the snapshot is attempted. Normally this...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

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