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Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Lin_Tape support for RHEL 9.4

RHEL 9.4 is the most current OS release for Redhat.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Scale Storage template for Satellite

Add supported storage template for Spectrum Scale and IBM Storage Scale System (former ESS) in IBM Cloud Satellite. There is a existing CSI https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale-csi . This would simplify management & maintenance for custo...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

DS8000 SGC Monitoring, Reporting and Management with Manual and Auto Control

We are utilizing Safeguarded Copy across all of our Production environments. As the capability grows, so do the requirements in terms of capacity and performance. Regarding changes in capacity needs based on host activity or change in algorithm of...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Disallow to run a SGC recover when R1 devices are already in use (by another recover or by a practise H3)

In our configuration R1 devices for SafeGuardedCopy are the same as H3 devices for practice. When we flash I3 devices on H3 devices for practise and then we run a recover backup for SGC the task failed with a x0FAE error code.But one time the H3 d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Needs more information

To enable option within SPP for setting multipe bandwidth throttle limits

At the moment, SPP has the option only to set single throttle limit for replication & copy operations, but will it be better to allow the option to have multiple bandwidths throttling limits, during varied time schedules. Example as below: Bus...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Enabling versioning and object lock on buckets in GUI

S3 Object Lock with COS is only supported for buckets (containers). The GUI to administer storage accounts, to generate S3 access keys and to create buckets does not allow setting of versioning and/or object lock. Those need to be enabled via an e...
3 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Add ability to extend the expiration date/time of a stand alone snapshot, possibly by adding option to chsnapshot command

We create snapshots of single volumes that are not part of a volume group and not associated with a snapshot policy. Here is an example: addsnapshot -volumes my_volume1 -ignorelegacy -retentiondays 3 Today, if we need to keep the snapshot beyond t...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

gpfs support mount fileset or directory

I hope that GPFS (General Parallel File System) supports mounting filesets or directories. Since each fileset or directory is used by different individuals, if mounting of filesets and directories is supported, it would achieve the effect of data ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Control Storage Insights to have multiple data collection targets for a single Spectrum Scale Environment

Currently Spectrum Control Storage Insights, can only target one Spectrum Scale node for data collection.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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