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Default Lifecycle Policy

Setting up a default lifecycle policy from the cluster management which would be in effect for every bucket by default unless the bucket owner puts a custom lifecycle policy on the bucket. This would in effect force the users to either set-up thei...
8 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Planned for future release

Add security certificate expiration date to "query status" output

Current options for viewing security certificate include an actlog entry when the server is started and an option to toggle on an ANR message for every session. Having the expiration date in the query status output would make an easy way for custo...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 - Customer request 3rd or 4th level power redundancy within the frame - critical outage occurred because building power maintenance left the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. Without addtional redundancy, the box came down.

Critical outage occurred. Building power maintenance being performed turning off one power leg leaving the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. The box ultimately came down, having a 3rd of 4th PDU would've allowed this frame to stay pow...
21 days ago in IBM TS7700 1 Not under consideration

Improved TS4300 Library Security with MFA Support

For security reasons, it would be interesting if access to the TS4300 web management interface was controlled by MFA support (Multi Factor Authentication).
21 days ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add product_id to display on gui Pools, Internal storage

I am looking at this site: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/873170 There is nothing there to tie my drives on my FS7300 running 8.5.0.10 to anything on that site. I am trying to use the GUI. I go into Pools, Internal Storage. I even tried to...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Enhance AFM to transfer NFSv4 ACLs from NFS servers like Isilons and store the ACLs correct as GPFS ACLs

Storage Scale and Storage Scale System are great products. But in many cases, another storage is already used and there are no easy ways to migrate PBytes of data - except perhaps with AFM? Almost all installations use e.g. AD integrations and NFS...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Shortening Log Collection time and reduce Log size to speed up service and support for more efficiency

TS4500 Log Collection is running more then 40 minutes and the Log size is greater than 750 MB. To speed up service and support time, we have to reduca tho log colletion duration and also the size of the log files. The idea ist to speed up and shor...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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