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    Send error notification in case a physical ISL in a PBHA System Partnership fails

    Can the IBM issue an error notification by the FlashSystem, that is joining a PBHA relationship, in case a physical ISL fails, which is part of the related System Partnership ? It would be good to get a similar error notification as the Cluster Pa...
    1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Allow sources, policies, protection groups, etc. to be organized in a matter other than source type.

    Currently, as sources are defined, the way the information is displayed is by the type of source. So, all vSphere, SAN, SQL sources are displayed with the same type. This makes it difficult to find sources in a way meaningful to the operator. Idea...
    1 day ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

    Ability to set an alternate directory for the creation of EPIC, iris.cpf file, within a properties file on the CDM server.

    This ability will help us make better use of the CDM product and avoid failing or long running jobs.
    1 day ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Ability to set timeout value for importing volume group and file system mount operation within a properties file on the CDM server.

    Currently the system lacks this capability, and our environment has on occasion situations that prevent these operations from completing before the hard-coded timeout expires. The ability to tune the time out will prevent the process from failing ...
    1 day ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    allow a human-friendly label for backup sources

    Currently when defining a source for backup, the name of the source can be rather complex and not user friendly. This will vary depending upon the source type, but in some cases (such as Azure backup workloads), the source name is just a large com...
    6 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

    Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

    IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    make the ba-client scan a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads

    question: when will the ba-client be able to search through a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads? this feature is standard among most of ba-clients competitors and customers are asking for this frequently.
    13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    need ability to view the dsm.opt file on a windows system and be able to add/subtract entries from the TSM server (spectrum protect)

    need ability to view the dsm.opt file on a windows system and be able to add/subtract entries from the TSM server (spectrum protect) This would be useful because many people cannot login to windows world if they are unix admins and manage the aix ...
    about 5 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    fixcentral communications - 8.7.0.10

    Hi Support, Please could you Post in RED/BOLD informing customers to not install, previous downloaded images. With the recent release of v8.7.0.10 and withdrawal from download site. we have flashsystem 5200 and flashsystem 5300. I downloaded v8.7....
    about 10 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Easier hotfix awareness

    At the moment, to be notified about a hotfix for IBM Storage Fusion, you either need to subscribe to the correct fusion notification subscription (there's at least 10 options) or have an issue a log a ticket to IBM support. Can a feature be built ...
    1 day ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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