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    Ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket

    A topic we discussed with the client was the ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket. This can be achieved with bucket policies. However, in Scale S3 we do not support the Condition clause of a bucket policy. The condition ...
    14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Query virt. Volume Inventory (Sizes)

    Hello, The TS7700 Virtual Tape System tracks the space used by each logical volume containing data. However, the Web GUI currently does not provide a way to query this information in bulk (e.g., through the Search Logical Volume panel: TS77-I-108)...
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

    Better multi-tenancy support User ID wise

    Hello, It would be great if the TS7700 provide improved multi-tenancy support for user IDs. For example, the ability to partition Hydra (Web) MI access so that individual users or clients can only view and manage their own “area” within the cluste...
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    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...
    5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Completely deactivate LI REQ support

    Hello, In a multi-tenant environment, where each tenant individually manages their RACF configuration, it would be important to have the ability to completely deactivate LI REQ support via the Hydra (web) Management Interface (MI) or through a RES...
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    partition-specific CLI prompt

    starting with 9.1.1 we can connect to individual partitions. when doing so thru ssh the CLI prompt (PS1) still shows the full controller's name. it would be very handy to have the partition's name displayed here. especially if you're operating on ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

    In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Authorize to set different IP for the NTP server on VTS7780

    Today it is impossible to configure different IP addresses on the clusters of a GRID of VTS7780. The VTS are generally installed on different and remote sites.An NTP server is available on each of the sites, but they have different IP addresses. I...
    8 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    ESS Management Switch monitoring feature request

    We value the IBM turnkey appliance and support; however, we would like a way to monitor the IBM provided ESS management switches via ESS (GUI and/ore Alerting).
    21 days ago in Storage Scale System 1 Submitted

    cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot effeciency improvements

    The cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot requirements made economic sense in the past, before mmvdisk began enforcing a minimum of 4 vdisks per Data Adapter (DA) on SSD-based Recovery Groups (RGs). Currently, in a single ESS Building Block, depending ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

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