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    add the ability to sort by Storage systems in the flash grid Storage systems page

    when you log into the storage flash grid and go to Storage systems, there is no way to sort. by being able to click on the Storage systems bar to sort would make it alot easier to locate storage systems.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Being able to define an IP white listing to access the Defender Services DMS and DRS

    DMS and DRS are SaaS based services which are widely accessible from the Internet. Although there are strong authentication, MFA and other security mechanism controlling the access, some clients are requesting the possibility to restrict access to...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Prevent TERMINATE of practice disks if a volume is online

    In a session with practice disks, can you add an option to prevent TERMINATE if at least one of the practice disks is online please ?
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Implement RWF_SYNC/RWF_DSYNC flag support in SCALE's pwritev2 syscall handler.

    Recommendation for implementation (IBM should implement): 1. Add IOCB_SYNC/IOCB_DSYNC Handling in gpfs_f_write_iter() int gpfs_f_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) { ssize_t ret; // Current code: just writes, ignores flags ret =...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    AlwaysOn Servermon lslv lspv AIX commands need to be changed to prevent hang situations

    Today, the Storage Protect server AlwaysOn Servermon issues the following commands to gather information about AIX logical and physical volumes: lsvg -o | lsvg -illsvg -o | lsvg -ip lspv -l ... in a loop for all hdisks. We request to add -L option...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Sign kernel modules and enable secure boot on ESS

    ESS updates are delivered as a set of components already tested together, but are still building kernel modules locally during the upgrade. This wastes time (building modules takes a lot of time), and makes it impossible to enable secure boot. Sin...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

    Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

    (See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    IBM Defender Sentinel - Sensor for Storage Scale / GPFS filesystems

    We have a lot of customers with GPFS where we can see to sell Sentinel, but we need a support of filesystem agent. GPFS has safe guarded snapshots and policy engine, so it would be fine to use those features to implement security scans.
    12 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

    We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

    To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

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