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Implement upstream NooBaa Changes that support recent Amazon S3 server/client changes

Recent client side changes to the aws cli utility as well as the Amazon boto3 python libraries have broken functionality of using the s3 gateway. From Amazon: In AWS CLI v2.23.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integri...
10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
11 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

CES-S3 should support multiple groups per S3 account

Currently there's only support for a single group ID for each S3 account. This doesn't fit well with normal file system permissions where the same account might need access to several groups of different roles. F.ex. /gpfs/fs1/department might all...
11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Allow "modify volume capacity" of a volume in a volume group with PBR applied

For the moment, it is not possible to modify (in our case extend) a volume which is in a volume group where a replication policy is applied. This has a huge impact if we simply want to extend a volume (to increase a datastore capaciy for example)....
24 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Provide a UUID for each object that is replicated across multiple clusters (e.g. in PBHA / PBR / Flashgrid Configurations)

Objects such as volume groups or hosts that are being replicated in a PBR/PBHA config exist as individual objects with local IDs on each FlashSystem Cluster, although they actually are considered as unique objects in a cluster-overarching context....
28 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Storage Insights should support the creation of hosts for NVMe-attached devices.

Storage Insights does not currently support the creation ofhosts for NVMe-attached devices.It needs to include the hosts that are zoned with the NVME protocol in addition to the SAN Capacity (GiB) field.
4 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of DS8000. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

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