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    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option

    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option so so that binds() on sockets meant to be used for a subsequent connect() do not require that there's a totally unused port in the ephemeral port range for the source IP. We got an assert on...
    20 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    More Verbose Update screen for Firmware Updates

    During the Flash System Update the status jumps from 2% to 50% with no updates in between or afterwards, a more verbose visuals would be great.
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Sign kernel modules and enable secure boot on ESS

    ESS updates are delivered as a set of components already tested together, but are still building kernel modules locally during the upgrade. This wastes time (building modules takes a lot of time), and makes it impossible to enable secure boot. Sin...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    DS8K Logical Configuration backup & restore functionality

    Hello,I would like to ask to implement IBM as a vendor supported way to create backup about DS8K storage's logical configuration, with option to restore it.The configuration backup should be possible to be created from both DSCLI and DS8000 Storag...
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    IBM Defender Sentinel - Sensor for Storage Scale / GPFS filesystems

    We have a lot of customers with GPFS where we can see to sell Sentinel, but we need a support of filesystem agent. GPFS has safe guarded snapshots and policy engine, so it would be fine to use those features to implement security scans.
    4 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

    Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Integrate cascaded archive and cascaded replication configuration panelts into IBM DMS GUI

    I am referring to this feature called cascaded replication and cascaded archive. Link: https://docs.cohesity.com/7_2_2/Web/UserGuide/Content/Concepts/CascadedReplication.htm?Highlight=cascaded The feature is currently an Early Access Feature but o...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Data Management Service (DMS) 0 Submitted

    Detailed overview in Fusion UI to display all resources actually captured by the backup or recipe

    Suggestion for improvement:In order to support the targeted development of recipes that work correctly, a function for quick and complete content analysis of the individual created backups (and possibly also the restores) should be included in the...
    12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

    GUI - Copy Services (Mirroring View: Volumes grouped by Session)

    On DS8880 and prior, the Storage Manager GUI provided a view on source system under Copy Services > Mirroring that grouped Volumes by GM Session. Starting on the DS8900 series the same view simply lists all Volumes (which is not overly helpful ...
    2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    IBM Storage Protect Client Installation/upgrade in Windows environment Windows System should not reboot to take effect

    This is regarding a customer query related to the IBM Storage Protect BA Client on the Windows platform. When an end user installs or performs a version upgrade of the Storage Protect BA Client, the installation process currently triggers a Window...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

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