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TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

An option to disable unmount mount for bulk selective recalls using multiple file lists from the same tape.

If you do bulk selective recalls, with multiple file lists coming from the same tape, storage archive unmounts the tape after finishing the list. After starting the new list, the same tape is mounted again. This causes massive delays mounting and ...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Future consideration

Activity report and Security Posture Report grouped by Business

Would be good to have customizable reports on Defender to have the ability to build custom reports . The prime use case I see (customer asked for) is to be able to provide a report for a given business application which woud be composed of VMs and...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Request to allow configuration commands to run during code/ifix upgrades.

During the code upgrade process of flash systems, the configuration commands are not available from the time that the update process starts to the time that the new code level is committed. These restrictions stopping us to use self-service API to...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

OSSM master encyption key needs to be protected from loss

If the OSSM master encyption key is lost, the protected data stored on the IBM Storage Protect server cannot be recovered for the IBM Storage Protect Plus client. The product needs a better resiliency mecanism to avoid the loss of that key.
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow SP Plus backups to Spectrum Protect server w/o requiring a backup to the vSnap storage first

A backup to Spectrum Protect is not possible w/o doing first a backup to a vSnap. The dependency on vSnap should be removed to allow leveraging the Spectrum Protect server storage hierarchy.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

lowInodes Callback for filesets

The noDiskspace callback is triggered on several occasions, one being an inodespace running out of inodes. At that point n time the filespace is already full and users see "no space on device" errors. We'd need a similar callback that triggers ear...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration