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API Connect support for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication

Need native supportability for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication for IBM API Connect (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Red Hat OpenShift). Since both are IBM owned, it would be great if both teams (Fusion and Cloud Pak for I...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

ECE edition 5.1.9 version support 256 storage node in one cluster

as title, we need 5.1.9 version（LTS）support 256 Necessary
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups

Customers want the ability to migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups. This is due to when customers want to split VMs up already in existing SLAs currently this needs a full backup to be re-run and therefore more space needed in...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DS8000 REST API New functions

Expand the DS8k REST API to include more functions that are provided today with DSCLI.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Enable multi protocol CES SMB / NFS rolling upgrades when CTDB upgrade is within a minor version.

When a multi protocol SMB and NFS CES cluster is upgraded, a short full stop of all CES protocols is required due to CTDB not allowing mixed major or minor versions. This can often cause issues with NFS mounts, if it is not possible to unmount the...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

eliminate lack of I/O on mmdelsnapshot start

When deletion of bunch of snapshots starts we a lack of I/O for about three minutes.NFS Clients see a huge delay of I/O. Related applications hanging for this time and user connections and run into timeouts (e.g http connections for apps that stor...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Planned for future release

Need web client support in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.2 or later server.

Web client is extensively used in our environment ( TSM 8.1.1). To fix bugs that are impacting user jobs, TSM will be upgraded to V8.1.3 in the near future.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 9 Not under consideration

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