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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

Add option Session expiration time

In addition to this delivered option for idle session logout https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CSM-I-123 Security requirements are asking for a an absolute logout. A user is logged in, but can stay logged in indefinitely if not idle. The...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Not under consideration

Add an 'absolute' logout option for the VTS Management interface

Due to more restrictive security requirements we're asking to have an addition logout option for the VTS Management Interface. In addition to the session timeout option add an absolute timeout option. Whether the session is idle or not have the op...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Add an 'absolute' logout for DS8 GUI and CLI

Along with the idle timeout on the DS8 GUI, further security restrictions are requiring us to have an 'absolute' logout time. Even if session is NOT idle a login could not be longer than 12 hours (for example). This should be included on the DS8 G...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

mmbackup: Backup extended acls separately to eliminate "updated" backup

mmbackup should generate a database of file/dir extended acls and back up such database so that TSM can be run with the SKIPACL option enabled. When the only change to a file is its extended acl or permissions, it is a waste of resources having to...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 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 ...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Not under consideration

Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)

Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Request for Product Qualification: DAR Encryption External Key Manager for Jack Henry

Customer is migrating their enterprise to Fortanix DSM 4.23+. They are shutting down their existing EKM's. All data center assets need to utilize Fortanix DSM for centralized, separation of duties, EKM management. Jack Henry current DS8 systems: D...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Dscli output file in code page IBM-1047 when running in z/OS environment

I use dscli from Z/OS system and using Java batch procédure. When i execute the following commands : offloadfile -perfdata /tmp offloadfile -fcdata /tmp the resulting file is in code page iso8859-1 and not ibm-1047. So to interpret the file file i...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Not under consideration

DS8K - DSCLI as a docker image

It would be great if IBM can offer the DSCLI as a docker image for zCX. As s390x architecture is already supported, it would be great to have this available as a docker image to reduce the overhead to manually install it. As the standalone DSCLI i...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Able to monitor and set maintenance mode on external services such as GKLM servers or other dependencies in GPFS GUI and via CLI/REST-API.

If you have two or more GKLM servers connected to your IBM Storage Scale cluster there is no way to via GPFS GUI disable warnings from GKLM servers (At least not in a user friendly way that I know about) . So when you do maintenance on one of your...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

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