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    Ability to modify or add a fcport of a host that is in a partition.

    Assuming PBHA and\or PBR: It may happen that a FC HBA of a host is replaced or that a HBA is redeployed. Or a host has already been created with 1 FC port. In these situations it is not possible to adjust this.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    mdisk array expansion is too slow

    one of my clients needed to expand pool capacity by expanding the underlying mdisk array after adding new FCM4s. The process is taking too long, months on FS9500. Last expansion they were doing, they added 12x FCM4 and the array is estimating 40 d...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    When Volume Group deleted without snapshot removed. I would like GUI can see snapshot that not belonging any Volume Group

    When Volume Group deleted without snapshot removed. I would like GUI can see snapshot that not belonging any Volume Group.
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    DS8K - Multiple local user support when AD/LDAP is configured

    In DS8K - post configuration of AD/LDAP, it allows only one user in addition to LDAP users. Since we have local users created for different purposes (for e.g. CSM replication user, Spectrum Controller user, Monitoring tool integration users, Servi...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    Allow Rest Logins Audit msg to be deactivated

    If we check every 10 mins drive state, we get 144 login and 144 logout messages in the event logs of the library. The minimum would be the allow a API user creation who can only read for example and for whom one can deactivate then msg or similar....
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    SPS: Enhance restore capability to enable restore to an e.g. empty system.

    As of today, SPS requires that the to-be-restored filesystem exists before the restore can be executed. There are situation a customer wants to restore data (Db2) to an empty system: The System crashed, needed to be reinstalled, therefore the (dat...
    8 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

    For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Launch Defender Licensing calculator service to enable self-service license planning

    There's a need to launch a Defender Licensing calculator service within the platform to increase transparency and enable self-service for Defender customers The information and platform is already available within IBM and IBM Ecosystem organizatio...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

    Do not transfer data again when modifying ACLs

    From time to time, we have to back up data a second time because ACLs change on subtrees. Unfortunately, this can’t always be avoided. Since we have large data sets totaling several hundred TB, this is naturally a major undertaking. We could ignor...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    TSM client & server support for CENTOS

    Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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