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CSM Server restart & ESSNI restart confirmation in CSM

Following a CSM Server restart, or ESSNI restart through the hardware management console, there should be an indication/event in the logs that that happened. Currently, there is no way to verify within CSM, that a restart of either of these compon...
8 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 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....
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

A command to reapply management class on a volume or list of volumes

Objective is to reduce migration time and correction time in case of error.
5 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 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...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to provide more granular RBAC permissions

The use of Safeguarded Tape increases the potential attack vector on the tape library's management interfaces. The currently implemented options for assigning role-based permissions do not allow these permissions to be assigned granularly to indiv...
12 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Expedited inode scan / faster disk replacement for descOnly disks with filesystem that have large inode counts

For Scale filesystems with very large inode counts, requesting an improvement to reduce/consolidate the inode scan requirements when replacing the descOnly disks (128M).
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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