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Reporting Capacity Usage on volumes in hyperswap, 3-site, 2-site and volume group snapshots

We support many companies and need to be able to report the front-end usage and total capacity usage being used by them. We would like a report that captures volumes in hyperswap, 3-site, 2-site and volume group snapshots. It would be ideal if we ...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Flashsystem Storage systems to have basic monitoring capability in the GUI itself. Eg: alert or notify on volume capacity used or state based on set threshold on the system itself. Basically, the system itself to have basic/flexible monitoring capability

This is useful when we look at the system we can get all kind of alert/notification including volume used capacity. This will enhance visibility with respect to monitoring and alerting and will add an extra layer of protection from causing outage ...
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

A command to reapply management class on a volume or list of volumes

Objective is to reduce migration time and correction time in case of error.
8 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 Submitting a Test Call Home Case

This would be useful to make sure a call home case gets submitted to IBM Support. The test call home feature is good, but would like it to be more comprehensive. This shows that its able to make a connection and is able to create a case after let'...
15 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Additional OS Support for Storage Defender Sensors

IBM Storage Defender includes Sensors that are invented by IBM Research and are first active AI-backed threat detection against malware filesystem activity tye of sensors in market. The additional file-level ransomware active threat detection prov...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Submitted

Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Password expire message on GUI

Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Include environmental informations (humidity/temperature) into REST-API GET Drives and GET Library output

In order to ensure the operation of a TS4500 according to the defined environmental specifications, it must be possible to query these values directly without first collecting and evaluating drive logs and converting specific pages / hex codes to ...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

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