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Prometheus Exporter for Tape Library metrics

Currently the CLI and the REST API allows to monitor the TS4500 library by self written scripts. But it would be very useful to have a simple script which already provides all available metrics of the library to Prometheus. In our Environment we u...
2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months 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
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

Support of 3 active replication relationship in DS8000

To maintain 2 synchronous relationship on 4-copy at 2-site will require support of 3 active relationship to achieve a symmetric model to provide extra resilience in both cases of storage system failure and site failure.
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via OC

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via Operations Center
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Please upgrade the TS7700 rsyslog protocol to use TCP with TLS

The current TS7700 rsyslog communications protocol is TCP in the clear. By adding TLS encryption to TCP, the communications will be more secure.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Allow more than one NTP server in Spectrum Virtualize Products

Most products that require time synchronization allow more than one NTP server to be specified. Spectrum Virtualize products only allow one server and that only via the IP address. Here, IBM has to make improvements and allow more than one server....
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

SPP Container backup support unsupported storage class exclusion

We wish to have a better exclusion feature for currently unsupported storage classes.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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