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    logical volume retrieve in cache - tool

    as IBM lab service unit, we would assist the customer to takeover some tasks the client has to execute by his own side when HW refresh is performed on new ts7700, or when a backup infrastructure change is in place. We need to be able to recall by ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    Application Dependency Impact Analysis and Change-Risk Assessment for IBM Storage Insights

    I propose adding an Application Dependency Impact Analysis and Change-Risk Assessment capability to IBM Storage Insights to help organizations better understand the potential operational impact of storage-related changes on critical applications a...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    OC Reports: Display formatted numbers right-aligned

    The OC should display results from the VARCHAR_FORMAT command right-aligned to make the report more readable. I've noticed that in OC reports containing numbers, those numbers are sometimes left-aligned, even when they are padded with spaces. This...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

    Allowed DRS sources vs remote locations (ROBO)

    We currently have 2 onprem clusters for DP configured within DRS. We have those 2 discovered and scanning/reporting within DRS. We also added multiple Vcenter connections to DRS, which manages our clusters onprem as well as remote sites where ROBO...
    7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 3 Future consideration

    Provide a way to acknowledge backup status of "Without backups" instead of using the Exclude button, which relates more to the Recovery Group feature.

    With DRS scanning our environments, it discovers VMs that are "Without Backups". Some are indeed to look at, but many are VMs that do not require backups. Test machines, lab servers, POC VMs etc. It would be nice to have a way to acknowledge this ...
    7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

    Quicker method of removing millions of cloud objects (or maybe even container pool as well)

    Deleting a cloud storage pool, or a container pool, with 100's of millions objects take lots of time, since each extent needs to be deleted one by one. A method should exist to mass delete these objects. In this case, it took a month to delete all...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Setting Library Maintenance Mode by LI REQ for a planned TS7700 Maintenance causes z/OS messages "forced internal pause"

    Setting maintenance mode during planned maintenance on a TS7700 triggers an alert to our customers' IT operations via the z/OS message "internal forced mode," as this message is typically displayed in the event of an actual outage. Therefore, manu...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Taints support for Fusion Access

    Capability in Fusion Access to present multiple-sized LUNs from external storage and the ability to determine which worker nodes in a single cluster have access to the various LUNs. Currently, Fusion Access requires that all externally presented L...
    3 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    Policy-based Quality of Service / Throttles

    Every vdisk out of a specific ressource (pool/childpool/host/cluster/vdisk-name) should get automatically a throttle per pre-defined policy.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    add the server certificates and key database to the prepare plan file

    To recover a Storage Protect server 5 files need to be backed up via some customer process separate from the Storage Protect tools. Creating a reliable workflow to protect these crucial files can be prone to error and thus to a failure of the abil...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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