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Ability to set Custom Retention Policies for Events and/or requirement for them to be "fixed" before removing them from the Dashboard

Per design, current Fusion versions includes the following events expiration policies: Information events lasts for 3 to 4 hoursWarning events lasts for seven daysCritical events lasts for 14 days These values are fixed and do not require the admi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Customize visible Name for the Device in Browser-TAB

The customization of the visible Device-Name in the Browser-Header or Browser-Tab will be helpfull, if you have to manage multiple Devices. If you have to manage you will be able to identify the different Devices when you are able, to set the Devi...
8 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

Ability to view capacity info as z/OS reports it

Insights is great for viewing info (real time and historical) at the device / storage system level similar to the gui for the DS8K. However that is not the most useful info for day to day operations of these devices defined to z/OS. Insights does ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

REST API - Quotas for Users and Groups

Create a REST API to show User and Group quotas. Currently, the only quotas are Filesystems and Filesets - If users have a homedir set to a fileset you can get their quota, however if user or group quotas are set they cannot be retrieved.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CUIR (Control Unit Initiated Recovery) for DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DASD<-->Z works fineControl Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for Tape<-->Z works fineCUIR works fine with Microcode-Updates and hardware-maintenance Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DA...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

To have a possiblity to disable certain ciphers on BA

As one of our customers is operating an SP environment, they are regularly check with PEN-tests. And each year the find the BA to be possible vulnerable to CVE-2013-0169 (LUCKY13) as there are CBC ciphers available on the "schemode=prompted port" ...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

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

Enable object lock for internal DB backup and better retention management on Volhist

With object lock being available on backup storage pools there is a requirement to ensure the internal DB2 database can also be protected to the same level and functionality. A check of the object metadata to ensure the lock has expired/no longer ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add zstd as a compression option

Although the existing compression options are okay sometimes it would be nice to be have more options where speed and decent compression ratios are achievable. Zstd has been gaining traction both in the Linux area and is already on some IBM tape d...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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