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Ability to open a case for Storage Insights via Storage Insights

Request to allow a user to open a support case for Storage Insights using Storage Insights. Storage Insights is able to open support cases for the IBM block storage systems but it does not have an option to open a support case for itself. As a res...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Add Webinterface to Debian based Linux.

A customer have based most of their production on Debian based Linux distros (Debian and Ubuntu) with no GUI in the server install. In the BA client DEB package the WebClient module is missing, the RPM package TIVsm-WEBGUI.x86_64.rpm
28 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

add graphs to reports

when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add GUI option to view, select and modify mirror write priority of Volumes

Currently it is not possible to specify the mirror write priority parameter in the GUI during Volume Creation. The system allows two options for mirrored volumes: latency (which is the default) and redundancy. In some customer environments it is c...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Call home for Storage Defender

IBM Storage Defender does not yet have an integrated call home solution to send hardware logs to IBM Support and thus facilitate the replacement of defective equipment. In this case, I suggest creating a solution that identifies if the client is u...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Shorten wait time of LEADM/EEADM Operation while LTO-9 Optimization

Software: Storage Archive LE/EE Condition: when user run format new LTO-9 media, this kicks LTO-9 media optimization, and user use IE slot to import media to Library while optimization. Problem: User must wait LEADM/EEADM operation, such as "show ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Not under consideration

Enable IBM Block storage CSI driver to choose other than the default TCP port 22 when used with FlashSystem

Currently, IBM Block storage CSI driver interacts with FlashSystem devices via the default SSH port (TCP/22). Please provide a way to change the port usage. See the discussion on a Slack channel #get-help_CSi: https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com...
24 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive

In Baidu hyper scale tape storage system, we met many cases that good tape cartridges is marked to bad status because of bad drive. For example, drive1 is bad, Archive EE still uses it to write or read data and get the error result, Archive EE wil...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

Adding Support of Noobaa Metrics with Integration in Zimon Sensors

Currently the existing mmces protocols has integration of metrics in the zimon Sensor Framework, but the newest one, mms3 (noobaa-core) don't. We use the current zimonGrafanaBgridge to visualize these Metrics in Grafana. The current available func...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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