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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

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

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for hosted bare metal worker

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
16 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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

RestAPI access to ESG information provided by 'show su' CLI command.

Many clients are required to report on ESG/energy use in their data centers. This would provide a way to collect this data in an automated way.
4 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

IBM Spectrum Archve EE - One failed candidate (e.g. deleted) for migration causes whole migration task fail, space allocated, migration must be repeated

Migration task should finish successfully even any individual file fails (reason of failure could be that user deleted of changed file after start of migration), it helps to save drive time so no new re-migration is needed. If migration fails, spa...
21 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Change process for dual control function

the dual control function raise the security for important functios in TS77xx. To use this function you need 2 groups(or persons) for 'Maker' and 2 groups(or persons) for 'Checker'. The result of this workflow(design) is, that you need 4 Groups to...
30 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Submitted

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