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    IO pause data capture for both controller during code upgrade or node maintenance activity of IBM 9500

    During an upgrade of IBM 9500 Flash Systems, even if logs are collected immediately, we will get IO pause data from 1 node only. This is impacting the investigation during production issue due lack of logs & evidence of IO pause which is not g...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Add TS7700 stats to the IBM Storage Insights GUI Panels

    Add TS7700 stats to the IBM Storage Insights GUI Panels
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Interval of "compressionThreshold"

    In CVC 375851, DS8k CLI Development had asked to address these 3 requests from the customer via RFE ----------------------------------------------------------------1.) The command of "chextpool -compressionThreshold nn Px" is already included in t...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

    During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Automate scan and fix of "unavailable" containers for Spectrum Protect servers

    Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot ----------------------...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

    Customization of LDAP authentication in Spectrum Protect software

    When using Spectrum Protect Plus with LDAP authentication, the group parameter that is queried is hard coded (objectClass=group).This objectClass "group" is not present on all LDAP servers.Please allow customization of group attribute (like object...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Support External Ceph on Fusion HCI as the only storagesystem

    For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is the right fit (particularly for OpenShift Virtualization), support configuring External Ceph on Fusion HCI with no other storage defined (no GDP and FDF installed b...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    RegionalDR support for External Ceph

    For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is a good fit, rbd-mirror needs to support StorageClass ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd rather than the usual internal StorageClass ocs-storagecluster-ceph-rbd.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    Opject Agent support for AIX

    Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    MFA for CSM users

    In the context of compliance to DORA/NIS2/... regulations I would be great to see CSM users authentication supported by MFA/2FA (like TOTP, with Duo Security, Microsoft Authenticator, IBM Verify,...).
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

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