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Scale Storage Native Driver for Mainframe zOS

We are trying to get access to the mainframe storage on the midrange end to allow Data and AI tools like Content Aware Storage and Watson Knowledge Catalog. Following are the gaps: 1. There is no native driver for zOS. Current support is limited t...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Authorize to set different IP for the NTP server on VTS7780

Today it is impossible to configure different IP addresses on the clusters of a GRID of VTS7780. The VTS are generally installed on different and remote sites.An NTP server is available on each of the sites, but they have different IP addresses. I...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Error message to provide specific detail of problem

When Storage Archive is retrieving a file but the tapes where primary or any replica copies reside are offline the error message is non-descript and just says there is an error as opposed to error primary and replica files not available as tapes o...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Not under consideration

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

For tickets that are showing on Storage Insights have a hyperlink to the IBM ticket

This will eliminate the need to copy and paste the ticket number into the IBM support site. The hyperlink will take you there eliminating the copy paste process as well as saving time
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 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...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 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
7 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 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
7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Support NFS Ganesha Preserve_Unlinked feature

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

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