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Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.

Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
8 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

Non-disruptive migrate between storage classes

Need the ability to non-disruptively (or minimally disruptive) migrate data between storage classes. Needs to be fully automated with the user simply selecting the source PV and target storage class. Use Cases: Replace storage provider such as exi...
about 24 hours ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

checkMK . FlashSystem Plugin update

Some of our customers use Checkmk as their monitoring tool instead of IBM Storage Insights. To ensure compatibility and optimal performance, it would be beneficial to update the current plugin to support the latest IBM Flash System Family.
about 2 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Submitted

Allow customer to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level

Allow customers to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level (admin, operator, etc) … The customer would like to adminstir the groups on th eDS8k exactly how it works in the Storage Manager GUI for the z/OS.
2 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
9 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
35 minutes ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

Detect and delete previous snapshot operation under Vcenter or mark the backup failure for corresponding Virtual Machine

Its useful to avoid reach out the maximum capacity of Vcenter snapshots. SPP must be able to detect the situation, where there are a lot of unsuccessful removed and consolidated snapshot, have to stop the operation and mark the Backup as failure f...
about 21 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Backup database to s3/cloud - support for immutability

Cloud container pool has support for immutability and if you store data there, it makes sense to also be able to store the database backup in cloud with immutability. Currently, database can be stored in cloud, but no immutability.
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted