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    Ability to Trigger Customized Client-Initiated Call Home via DSCLI or API

    As a DS8000 user with numerous DS8000s in our environment, we do not currently have an automated method to trigger an IBM Health Check on one or more of our DS8000 systems. Due to security concerns, we do not currently have IBM Storage Insights im...
    about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

    Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Provide new LI REQ knob to choose the old and the new Premig method

    At the code level lower than R5.0 PGA1, it uses old Premig method. Number of simultaneous Premigs becomes the maximum when total data size in Premig queue is larger than PMPRIOR. At R5.0PGA1 or higher code level, it uses new Premig method. Number ...
    7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Support for SI and SI PRO entitled storage sytsems in ONE instance - with SI PRO capabilities switched on / off according to system entitlement

    As of today, we cannot have a mixture of SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems in one environment. SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems can reside in one SI instance, but to exploit SI PRO capabilities, a second SI instance for SI PRO entitled ...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Support for concurrent uCode update on DS8000 ECKD for 21CS VSEn customers

    Currently, based on very old experiences with IBM z/VSE and DS8000 uCode upgrades, on the Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates for example IBM DS8900F Microcode Customer ...
    3 months ago in IBM DS8000 6 Not under consideration

    Add setup options for secure, encrypted and authenticated E-Mail notification for Tape Library TS4500

    For security reasons we need the possibility to send authenticated and encrypted (TLS) alert emails with a predefined email address as sender. Unfortunately only authentification for emails is currently configurable.
    3 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

    Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Enhancement request for DS8K GUI/ESSNI to show end-to-end I/O latency for CKD volumes

    As mentioned in the PMH, the I/O response time (System Latency (ms)) provided by the DSGUI of the DS8870 and DS8880 doesn't show correct end-to-end latency in CKD volumes environment, but unfortunately it is current restriction. It is same on DS89...
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

    Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

    Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

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