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    210 VOTE

    mmrestorefs into REST API.

    The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

    Allow access to Reporting feature for support users(RTS)

    Remote Technical Support(RTS) teams have access to SI instances to help clients with performance and capacity issues. We occasionally also get requests related to the Reporting feature in SI, but we don't have access to this feature. Additionally,...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Support multiple concurrent Policy-Based High Availability (PB-HA) 2-site-ha relationships on a single IBM Storage Virtualize system or IO Group.

    ### How should it work?1. Hub-and-Spoke PB-HA Topology: Allow a central storage system (System A) to simultaneously maintain independent active-active '2-site-ha' PB-HA relationships with different target systems (e.g., System B <-> System A...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Repurpose AFM as Service Node on Fusion HCI

    We have customers that purchased racks with AFM nodes and did not have service nodes. Many have converted from GDP to FDF and now have AFM that are not used. Can we convert the AFM nodes to service nodes?
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

    IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Remove SQL Server 2016 PowerShell Extensions, SMO and CLR Types dependency from DP for SQL

    IBM Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server (DP for SQL) currently requires Microsoft SQL Server 2016 prerequisite components, including: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 System CLR Types Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Management Objects (SMO) Windows PowerS...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Submitted

    Provide a supported method to migrate retention sets, including all associated metadata and retention information, between IBM Storage Protect servers (e.g., AIX to Linux), enabling customers to decommission legacy environments

    Product Enhancement Request (RFE) Title Provide a Supported Retention Set Migration Capability Between IBM Storage Protect Servers Why is this useful? Organizations commonly use IBM Storage Protect retention sets to satisfy long-term regulatory, l...
    28 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    CES S3 Support for "Atomic Conditional Write" (compareAndSet)

    The current CES S3 protocol does not support an S3 compareAndSet operation. This is a requirement for attaching ElasticStack to the CES S3 protocol nodes. Attachment of ElasticStack to IBM Storage Scale using CES S3 would enable ElasticStack to st...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Ablity to refresh a thinclone from an unrelated snapshot

    The existing ability to refresh a thinclone volumegroup from a snapshot helps with automating repeated tasks and minimising admin in the server and OS infrastructure to discover volumes. In this operation the thinclone volumegroup is constraint - ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    change system layer from replication to storage when using automatic configuration for virtualization

    FS7600 comes with system layer value of replication. the automatic configuration for vitualization fails when system layer is set to replication and needs to be changed to storage layer. It would be helpful if the system automatically changed the ...
    18 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

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