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Automatic Recovery Enhancement for CSM Sessions After Temporary Switch Failures

In our environment, temporary switch port/SAN issues frequently cause CSM replication sessions to move into a Severe state and suspend MM/GM pairs.Even after the switch issue is resolved, CSM does not automatically clear the error or recover the s...
1 day ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Submitted

SESSION REFUSED - CLIENT IS DOWN-LEVEL WHEN SESSIONINITIATION SERVERONLY IS USED

Hello support team! I hope you are well! I raise this PMR because it seems we are hitting - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT25298 - IT25298: ANR0428W SESSION REFUSED - CLIENT IS DOWN-LEVEL WHEN SESSIONINITIATION SERVERONLY IS USED. Short ...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

IBM block storage CSI driver, increase ssh connections on FlashSystem

Who benefits: OpenShift customers with one FlashSystem, but more than one Openshift Cluster How it should work: the FlashSystem Software should increase the number of SSH connections. This enable customers to use a single FlashSystem as a Storag...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Provide support for SHA384 certificate signature algorithm

Today only SHA256 certifiate signature algorithm is supported. SHA256 is the standard industry choice whereby SHA384 is mostly required for high-security environments, financial/government, compliance requirements.
1 day ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Submitted

IBM FUSION DATA FOUNDATION - ROUTE SERVICES

Banco do Brasil provisioned CP4D using the IBM Fusion Data Foundation essentials that they are entitled. Due to a client policy, it's prohibited to use the default cluster name to route services that are run from the cluster. So, it's required to ...
11 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

DS8000 Safeguarded Copy (SGC) offload to TS7700 VTL

DS8000 users are driving multiple Safeguarded Copy (SGC) cycles per day - and are keeping many days worth of those SGC copies on the DS8000... but many have also expressed wanting to keep 'more' copies on TS7700 VTL. For example, perhaps making a ...
29 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

TS7700: Audit tracking for Dual Control

When SSA was testing dual control there is no end-to-end audit tracking. The customer when to add a dataclass contrust, we see the request in the dual control request menu. Then the checker when an approved the request. it disappears from the requ...
1 day ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

Allow the auto_zone_prefix to be added even after an auto zone enabled portset has been created.

If a customer has already setup the portsets for auto zoning, then realizes they could have setup a prefix name to help with the zone naming convention, they cannot setup the prefix without tearing down all the auto zone portsets.
1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Recommend adding the host name, as specified in the host definition, to the zone name

FlashSystem auto zone in 9.1.2.1 code does not work with AIX LPM hosts, where host definitions include both the active and offline WWPNs. My speculation is, if a live WWPN cannot be seen there is no way to identify which fabric they are logged int...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Add an option to the Backup Object Manager (backom) Online full restore command to restore both data and log files together, ensuring rollforward succeeds

Current Behaviour: The Backup Object Manager (backom) full restore command is restoring only datafiles, which causes the rollforward operation to fail. Risk: Logs must be extracted separately, and this process will take as long as performing a ful...
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP Submitted

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