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Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
5 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

On tape read or write fail, before marking tape bad, verify this isn't likely due to a tape drive or library issue

When a tape drive has hardware issues, spectrum archive will keep trying to use it to read or write tapes and then mark those tapes as need_replace or require_replace. Often there is nothing wrong with the tapes, but the tape drive was in a bad st...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Spectrum Archive should more gracefully handle potential lib sync issues and not mark tapes or drives bad w/o more guardrails

We've had multiple instances where the spectrum archive software gets out of sync with the status of our library and drives (ts4500 and ts1160) and tries to load a tape into a drive that already has a tape and then marks the tape as check_library_...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Shorten wait time of LEADM/EEADM Operation while LTO-9 Optimization

Software: Storage Archive LE/EE Condition: when user run format new LTO-9 media, this kicks LTO-9 media optimization, and user use IE slot to import media to Library while optimization. Problem: User must wait LEADM/EEADM operation, such as "show ...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
5 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

allow to update the Defender Connection Manager with a HTTPS certificate signed by client CA, 2 tier PKI, certificates must include correct CN and SAN with FQDN

Related product: IBM Defender Connection Manager Idea: Establish a process in the Connection Manager GUI or on cmd line (similar to the backup / restore script) to create a new CSR = Certificate Signing Request and install a client provided certif...
5 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
12 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Allow logical library without drives on TS4300 (safeguard)

We would like to have the ability to create logical library on TS4300 with just cartridge slots - no tape drives. This would allow to a have logical library where cartridges are safeguarded and not-erasable using host / FC access (because there is...
5 days ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Submitted

S3 Object Lock Governance Mode support required

Herman IT is a typical MSP which sells COS S3 capacity for their customers. Customers are demanding immutability for their data for X years. These customers may have a contract with MSP which expires in 1-3 years. If their customer wants to set an...
10 days ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

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