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Object Lock for CES-S3

We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

View by User Defined Group

Would like to have a View By User Group option under Sessions. When having multiple sessions the User Defined Group option is great for sorting. However, being able to roll them up under the User Groups (like with view by Volume Group) would make ...
21 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Lifecycle'

One common use of S3 lifecycle policies is to automatically delete objects after a specified period. For instance, businesses can set up a policy to delete temporary files or logs older than 90 days, ensuring that unnecessary data does not clutter...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

Addition of reclaimable space on lsvdiskanalysis and/or GUI volume properties

With the avenue of reclaim_se utility to automatically reclaim capacity of thin vdisks part of standard pools, clients are starting to ask support at times regarding the reclaimable capacity on their volumes. The command lsvdiskanalysis, from clie...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

"Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Snapshots on ChildPool

today you can only create snapshot-policy which makes the snapshots on the same pool the volume is already on. and in our scenario we are using Child-Pool for snapshots to prevent risks of cyber attacks when snapshots are filling the primery pool ...
22 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Integration with Storage Insights

Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2

Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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