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Enable the capability of having minimum 2 or more versions of LTO Drives & Media in the one Diamondback Tape library.

At the initial launch, the DiamondBack Tape Library was designed to have one Drive Type - LTO9 - as LTO8 was neither certified nor tested. However, expectation is to maintain a tape library for a dozen years or more - this ticks the sustainability...
about 1 month ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Ownership transfer of virtual volsers

I would like to see a more robust process of changing the ownership of volsers, before the unjoin process, or just balancing, if needed. Thanks.
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Upgrading DS8000 to Data Aware Contents Storage and suggesting new series either DS9000 or DS 10000,

Upgrading DS8000 to Data Aware Contents Storage and suggesting new series either DS9000 or DS 10000, We are in the Era of Agentic Generative AI, using LLMs and RAGs, Although IBM is the inventor of IBM Fusion Content Aware Storage CAS , but we nee...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
2 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Support NFS Ganesha Preserve_Unlinked feature

Prevent NFS "silly rename" behaviour
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Extend CSM RESTful API for zos certificate import to work with multiple CSM z/OS connections for different consistency groups

The current REST API to update a zos certificate into CSM does not allow filtering of z/OS connections if CSM has multiple z/OS connections to different consistency groups. The Swagger doc for this API does not have any parameter input or filter t...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Automated DS8000 system summary export

Client is requested by authorities to prove that, in case of a major cyberattack or disaster, he has retrieve logical configuration of his DS8Ks (and can thus reconfigure his DS8K rapidly once hardware is available). DS8000 offers already the capa...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Power 11 model with up to 60 cores per CEC

The DS8A80 has 24 Power9+ cores per CEC, which is about the same as the DS8980F had, and which is not so much more than the DS8A50 or DS8950F which come with 20 Power9 cores per CEC. Power 11 comes with up to 60 cores per CEC, and a lot more trans...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Provide an IBM TS7700 interal fucntion to allow removing the secondary copies from old/inactive Copy Export Pool via internal DB2 cleanup.

Our production TS7770 cluster was performing the daily copy export process prior the new TS7780 copy export cluster was installed. Now the production TS7770 needs to get rid of the copy export pool with 200 pvols in order to be able to re-use thos...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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