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RACF/SDBM Support for LDAP on DS8000

Adding a native LDAP Client on DS8000 including support for RACF/SDBM. We want to use a IBM Directory Server for z/OS with SDBM backend. This is NOT supported even for CSM yet.Having more types for authentication policies to configure LDAP authent...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

CSM to Provide Capability to Preserve Data in a 5th Copy (Secondary) after Changing the Primary SRC in a 4-Site MM/GM Session

Currently, we are setting up to use the 3-Site GM/GC Session which helps us with maintaining the 3rd copy (LCP) and avoiding Full-Push exposure when region switching (PRESS) between Data Centers. We would like to see if there was a way to provide ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

SVC T3 recover fails to meet business need in recovery of replication and flashcopy associations

we lost a cluster and had to perform a T3 recovery. After the recovery it was identified that none of the Flashcopy mappings, replication mappings nor the consistency groups were recovered. Working with support it was expressed that those parts ar...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

MFA support in Storwize management interface

The mangement web interface of the Storwize storage products urgently needs MFA protection. This can be done supporting RADIUS (which will open for Azure MFA integration) or by some IBM designed SMS-based 2FA.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Platform migration between same endians w/o. export/import

The only supported method for platform migration is via export/import of data, which (despite that it is really time consuming and tedious) is practically not possible in some circumstances, like when the customer uses a huge amount of WORM media,...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

CANCEL PROTECT or DURATION on PROTECT STGPOOL

CANCEL PROTECT and/or a DURATION option for PROTECT STGPOOL is needed.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Lockheed Martin - SVC Pool Rebalance

SVC Pool rebalance! This is a manual process today.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Schedule tasks with option to select multiple times

When taking SGC captures using CSM, due to business requirements, we have been asked to take at 4 different times of day. Ex: 1am, 6am, 6pm, 9pm. And it is different for each environment. Current CSM doesnt have such option. Need this option which...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Add logrotation for cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy

Please add log rotation for the cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy They can get quite large and fill up the available disk space.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

Add afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce parameters to ISS REST API fileset endpoints

With ISS 5.0.5"Data migration by using AFM migration enhancements" was introduced. And with it two new fileset parameters afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce. In 5.1 you introduced these parameters in the REST API GET fileset calls but not in the PO...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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