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Collect SAN portnames/labels of FC ports

we have lots of customers using insights for SAN monitoring and it would be very helpful to collect portnames, all customers label the ports with the device connected and that label/portname tell us what is wrong when using alert policies, not jus...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Implement filesystemPath in s3 API

We would like to see the flag (--filesystemPath) from the mms3 command on the protocol nodes implemented in the actual API. We have teams that utilize the s3 api that we would like to be able to have them specify the path themselves instead of hav...
3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

VSNAP uses NFS in v.3 in VM test restore. How can we force VSNAP to use NFS in v.4

It will improve security, performance improvements, improved stability and scalability. NFS is in v.4 due to this ensure VM restores and other operations are performed in the most efficient and secure manner possible.
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

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 ...
17 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
8 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
19 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Support for Ubuntu 22.04

As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Launch Defender Licensing calculator service to enable self-service license planning

There's a need to launch a Defender Licensing calculator service within the platform to increase transparency and enable self-service for Defender customers The information and platform is already available within IBM and IBM Ecosystem organizatio...
19 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

In Fusion HCI console, under backups, there must be an option to delete one or more backups

It's useful, because of quick management of the backups, usable for anyone.
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration