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Show Serial Numbers not Cluster IDs in Resources Overview

Resources -> Block Storage Systems, column "Serial Number": For IBM Storwize systems, cluster IDs are listed instead of serial numbers. No-one identifies a storage system by it's cluster ID. It would be much better to show the S/N of the contro...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Enable changing local account passwords via CLI or RESTAPI

We have a security standard that requires passwords to be rotated every X days or after use use. CyberArk manages the passwords for us. In order for CyberArk to be able to manage a password we need a CLI or RESTAPI that can be called to invoke a p...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Data Protection for VMware Support for vSphere 6.7

The latest version of Data Protection for VMWare, v8.1.4, supports vSphere 6.5 and 6.5 update and patch levels. VSphere 6.7 is out, when will this be supported?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Handle multiple mount points when not in use

This sounds like a bug, it reminds me of the old stale nfs handles that didn't go away after the connection had stopped usually because of an open file. I would think there would be a cleanup after a timeout of the data structures. When we try to ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Delivered

Allow IBM support to modify the RAID Parity Scrub rate. This would be used in potential data loss situations.

I want to have the option to speed up the "RAID Parity Scrub rate, built into and available in the code. I envision it as something only IBM could enable, but also not opposed to having it be available, and perhaps just not advertised to the gener...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add a role with hability to create SGC backups without possibility to expire them

It will improve security of the backup especially when SGC backups are triggered by a ZOS batch job. Without this role, everybody who can run the job can expire the backups and remove them.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Extend readReplicaPolicy and "failure group" to nodes, to help localize reads in a stretched cluster.

With a 2-site "stretched cluster", readReplicaPolicy can be used to choose which replica is used for reading, except... our options don't really handle complex network topologies. The "fastest" setting is often not a good choice because network la...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Increased FlashCopy bitmap space for SVC in 2022

EPIC 15665 is slated to expand FlashCopy Bitmap space in 2H22, but currently SVC is not slated for support. This customer is a long time IBM customer that is need of increased bitmap space for SVC.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Mask offline WWPNs in order to better monitor host status

In our AIX virtualized (NPIV) environment we've zoned all systems (lpars) with extra WWPN's that are used for lpar mobility. These WWPN's are not visible in the SAN for most of the time, but they are defined at the SVC level offcourse. This causes...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Secure wipe for drives (when decommissioning storage)

There is no functionality available in the Storwize line of storage systems which allows an admin to securely erase a drive in an enclosure (the DS8xxx line has SDO for this.) AIX has a diag tool which does it, but it only works on locally-attache...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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