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Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
5 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Enhance Install-Toolkit to add Firewall configuration support for rhel9

Our current rhel9 Systems that are provisioned has firewalld system service actice bei default. This generate a requirement to define the nessacary firewall roules for scale.These are our current cmd's that we used: firewall-cmd --add-port=10080/t...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "legacy" license model

With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Implement a way for TSM admins to report stgpool usage over a period of time, for example, a data point daily for the last year.

TSM administrators need to be able to predict when new hardware must be purchased, and a usage trend will facilitate that.
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Need to improve the speed of deleting a large number of small files

when deleting a large number of small files, most of the deleted ones are reclaimed in the background asynchronous process of fullscandeletion, but the process of space reclamation is relatively slow
3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Proxmox VE - Backup with Storage Defender Data Protect

Allow Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox Virtual Environment without the need for an agent. This integration is requested by customers and included in RFPs to ensure the capability of performing VM-consistent backups and fa...
18 days ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
16 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Submitted

Support for native velero v1.14 backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

Currently Velero v1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] and IBM are currently not supporting this. To support this code changes to storage protect object agent side are needed.
12 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review
209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
25 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review