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Once a code upgrade begins, we should block Customers DS GUI logins with a "banner" stating code upgrade is in "progress".

Clients, especially new ones who are not familiar with DS8000 tend to get upset when they are attempting to access the DS GUI during a microcode upgrade and find that they cannot. This will alleviate a great deal of frustration and uncertainly for...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Leverage Storage Scale CNSA shallow copy volumes for Fusion Backup

When using Fusion Backup & Restore to create external backup copies of Storage Scale based PVCs in Openshift (Scale CNSA or Fusion GDP), temporary volumes are created from snapshots and mounted to data movers. These volumes are full copies of ...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Unify the naming of settings for LDAP configuration

Different IBM Storage product (TS7700/TS4500/TSSC/…) are using LDAP but they are naming the different settings within the configuration different. My suggestion is to have this standardize across the various products.
4 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

We would like to have a way to export/import LDAP settings cross different IBM Storage systms.

Customer approached me asking why TS4500/TSSC/TS7700/DS8000 all are using separate ways to configure LDAP. They are requesting a way to configure one system and then copy these settings to the others. IBM in Tucson develop all, so this should be p...
4 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Scale S3/Nooba tiering to tape

With the new capability S£/Nooba replacing S3/Swift we would use the Scale ILM capability to move buckets/filesets from disk to tape thanks to Storage Archive integration
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Alert for AC Power missing on Fs9500

Fs9500 is considered Enterprise Storage. When AC power is missing, IBM service notification is NOT opened. Other Enterprise Storage like A9K and Ds8K are reporting this event. Moreover, even if Fs9500 is equipped with 4 different PSU, since AC pow...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Under review

Enable IBM Block storage CSI driver to choose other than the default TCP port 22 when used with FlashSystem

Currently, IBM Block storage CSI driver interacts with FlashSystem devices via the default SSH port (TCP/22). Please provide a way to change the port usage. See the discussion on a Slack channel #get-help_CSi: https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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