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Product functionality

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 ...
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - simple deletion of all default certificates

TSSC shall offer the option to delete all default certificates with a single click and allow to delete all expired certificates with a single click as well.
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Set multiple file systems to maintenance mode at the same time with --maintenance-mode yes

We have limited time when taking maintenance downtimes and we need to get file system into maintenance mode as quickly as possible. It can take a long time to get file systems into maintenance-mode, often having to wait for very long internal moun...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Warrining Alerts Option to be made Available

We had recent case with one of private sector banking customer using DS8K for their most critical database. Due to one of the controller one disk reporting "disk operation errors" entire controller went offline impacting their business. In AIX we ...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Daily System Check using Ansible

In an effort to automate our DS8k-environment with Ansible we are looking into automating our daily system check where we see if there is any physical drives in a failed status. The current process is done via DSCLI and generates a report manually...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Scale CSI & CNSA should be package with base scale distribution

IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver and IBM Storage Scale Container Native are add-on interfaces that are included in the base licensing for IBM Storage Scale. They are currently only available via external repositories that requi...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Join/SFMP support for RHEL 9/10

Please add Join/SFMP support to lin_tape driver to allow customers running 3rd party backup softwares utilizing it from RHEL8 to RHEL 9 (and eventually to RHEL 10).
10 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Not under consideration

Automatic expand of a safeguarded copy child pool when it reaches the set threshold

If a child pool fills to maximum the copies contained in the pool would go offline. it would be useful if we could set auto expand to the pool that could grow in increments, therefore lowing the risk of loosing immutable copies. This would be usef...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Implementing other message codes for SNMP trap 221

The client configuration is using DS8900 with Safe Guarded Copy At the moment when they see an SNMP trap trigger for trap 221 they only receive Message Code 10, which is telling them it's already removing space. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Request for IBM i partitions to not allow more than the maximum number of supported disks per Virtual FC connection/adapter.

When customers add disk and multiple paths beyond the supported limits (i.e. 127 paths), they are allowed to do this, until they IPL and fail with SRC A6005090, A6000255, A6000266 without any obvious indication of why the IPL failed. This request ...
10 months ago in Storage Discover Not under consideration

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