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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...
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) should be differentiate between real HOST-Connections issues vs. a planned shut down from one or more HOST systems.

Starting with CSM 6.3.10 IBM has introduced his Multi Sysplex Support (feature 87578b). With this feature are several resilience topics addressed to make the tool less prone to incorrect operation. One decision that has been made, for example, is ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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.
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Ability to extend/prevent expiration of a single backup or archiving functionality

Sometimes it is needed to make a permanent backup of a good known state of a system, an archive of a sort that will not be deleted by expiration. There should be a way to lock a single backup/prevent its standard expiration and deletion.
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Externalize Environment Sensor Data

In reference to TS018533380...This is for a TS4300 (3555) Library....Since the tape library / drives can capture and log the environmental operating conditions (i,e - temp and humidity) ; I would like the tape library to post an event into the log...
2 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 3 Future consideration

Provide SMTP Authentication capability to CSM (Copy Services Manager)

I work at a financial institution and our Security Department has recently implemented a policy to block all unauthenticated SMTP which, of course, is affecting alerts via email from CSM. This forced us to utilized SNMP for alerting...which isn’t ...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Support custom URL for S3 storage integration with AFM

We would like AFM COS S3 integration to allow custom URLs for the S3 storage. The product we use to provide S3 storage requires custom URLs, and as such, currently can't be integrated into AFM. Any user groups who also have custom URLs for S3 stor...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Command to force Dynamic Pagepool to shrink to minimum size

When utilizing the dynamic pagepool during IO operations, the pagepool automatically expands until possibly reaching its maximum allocated size. It then remains at that level, even after the IO operations have completed, until additional memory (m...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Efficient Deletion of Fileset backup data based on mmBackup per Fileset

We are running multi-petabyte Scale file systems in our HPC environment. User data is organized per project using independent filesets. The backup of user data is performed using mmBackup per fileset. For new projects, a new fileset is created. Wh...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client com o Storage Protect 8.1.16 or posterior. Tivemos TS018215491 Quando vamos escolher o restore pela opção [ point in Time ] o mesmo da erro: ANS309E remote operation failed ...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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