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Improve zOS host IP connection loss detection and failover behavior

There have been incidents in the field showing the current design of CSM z/OS host IP connection loss detection and failover to redundant active host connection is significantly delayed to 15-20 minutes. This may happen especially when the connect...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Allow IBM Spectrum Protect Client installed directly on ESS Appliance Family

When performing backup operations on ESS using MMbackup and IBM Spectrum Protect, the current architecture needs to have a Backup Proxy in order to configure the IBM Spectrum Protect and MMbackup. In this configuration, MMbackup currently forces t...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Pak Adopt Online Backup/Restore with Storage Fusion & Recipe

Online and non-disruptive backup and restore of mission-critical and enterprise applications such as Cloud Pak for Data is now available (with CP4D v4.5 and onward) using application-aware recipes and IBM Storage Fusion software. Other Cloud Paks ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Planned for future release

Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Increase consistency group 512 volume maximum to at least 2048

Current IBMi client has 498 volumes running on FS9500. Existing DS8K systems each have over 1,500 volume, preventing them from using more FlashSystems. Minimum # of volumes would need to be 2,048 but more would account for future growth.
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

The DS8900 uses a 2048 bit RSA-encryption for the request and that doesn't suite our certification authority (3072 bit or better 4096 bit)

The DS8900 uses a 2048 bit RSA-encryption for the request and that doesn't suite our certification authority (3072 bit or better 4096 bit). Even with the 9.4 release it still seems to be a 2048 bit key and there is no possibility to change/adjust ...
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

REST API for mms3 - enhancement: create S3 user

Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

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