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Implementation from the authenticated way to send EMails from CSM

At the moment CSM is not ready to use an authenticated way to send Mails. CSM should implement this possibility at their GUI to use an User + password for their mail Notifications.
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Enable TLS encryption as default for Mail Notifications

As default, it is not possible to use the Mail Notifications from (e.g.) CSM 6.2.8 to send mails with TLS encryption. If you contact an Exchange Server where sending from E-Mails without encryption is not allowed, you got during SMTP Server setup ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Storing File Permission and ACL on LTFS

Because of our security requirement we want to store the file and acl permissions, owner and group info already for the files that are migrated to tape with spectrum archive.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Offer alerting creation based on variation of the metric

In the same way that this is offered today with "Storage System , capacity, total compression, changes ", any other attribute (from other cateogries and componenent) should allow to specifc a change % value as trigger of the alerting
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Oracle ACFS Support for Copy Data Management

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is evaluating CDM v2.2.9 for Oracle. SQL has passed the eval. Oracle is running ACFS as the standard at NFCU. Looking for CDM support for ACFS
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel

A need to show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel by category will be very helpful and enhance the TS7700 MI usability.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Allow migration of Local Page DS volumes

Active Local Page DS volumes are the only volumes that cannot be migrated by TDMF. However, when all active local pages on a volume are set into Drain mode (read only), there should no longer be I/O to the volume that TDMF cannot handle. TDMF coul...
about 2 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Consider SFP specification (LW, ELW, SW) port speed as attribute for alerting creation

SI allow to create alerting related to SFP spec like power or DB, these spec my differ depending of the type of SPF in use Alerting creation should allow to to specify the type of SFP when creating an alerting some spec are as well related to the ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Tickets created with SI should have same info added to the ticket when created by phone home

When an SVC "phones home", the ticket generated includes the following information - Client would like this same information automatically generated when they create a ticket with SI. Today, only the serial number is passed. Client does leverages ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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