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Multiple snapshot disk attached to same worker node from different namespaces which cause the "Failed Snapshot" in the backup because of the limitation in VMware end.

Issue where snapshot getting failed on daily backup jobs runs when we have multiple PV/PVCs from different namespace attached the same worker node because of the VMware end there is limitation to handle the multiple tasks at same time. When the fi...
4 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support for certificates Signed by Public CA

UPS has adopted a corporate-wide security policy that all systems and platforms must support certificates signed by a Public CA. Currently, IBM Storage Virtualize does not support certificates, which does not meet UPS's security requirements.
4 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Upgrade Storage Archive EE cluster(10 nodes+2 libraries) node by node without stopping migrate and recall service

Baidu Netdisk had bought lots of tape libraries to store their cool data. Their solution is Storage Scale + Storage Archive EE+ TS4500. Recently they met an Archive bug, and IBM EE team had found the root cause and provided a fix, Baidu Netdisk ha...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

SCDM support on Other Hypervisors such as KVM, Hyper-V ... and also make it available as a standalone binary to de deployed on both PowerVM (Linux and/or AIX) and x86 Linux.

With the recent VMware licensing changes a lot of customers has moved away from it and adopting other hypervisors. In Sentinel Bundle the SCDM component which plays the role of external orchestrator to the storage is only supported on VMware see h...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Eliminate divisive language from your products

We're almost 1/4th of the way into the 21st century ... no IBM product should use terms like master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, etc.
16 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Increase logical paths limit of 512 for Control Unit

We had this idea opened for z/OS and HCD (https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4129), but through cases TS017155124 and TS017074516, it was suggested to open an IDEA directed to the DS8Ks. We use shared DASDs to t...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Associate Multiple Sysplexes on different type of sessions

Allow to associate multiple sysplexes to one session to support features as Hyperswap for SAS and shared volumes. As implemented in CSM 6.3.10 for 4 sites replication enhanced sessions we would like to be able to associate multiple sysplexes to a ...
28 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Integration with Storage Insights

Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
about 1 month ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1

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