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Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode e.g. AES-256-XTS
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Add more characters in MetroMirror name

Name of Mirror Relationship and Consistencygroup allows only 15 digits
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Volume compressionratio with inlinecompression

There is no view available about the compressionratio of a single volume.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

essclient.properties file activity

SMF records show that this property file is being read circa 100M times per day, driving high I/O rates and CPU activity. It doesn't make sense that a static property file should need to be read this frequently.
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

CSM Improve DS8000 Paths Interface

I would like to propose several enhancements to how the CSM DS8000 Paths screen is displayed and managed. 1) The DS8000 Paths screen has a lot of unused space when drilled down into a storage device list of paths, on my monitors at least half of t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Automated Backup of TS7700 database

Provide a way to allow customers to backup/restore the database and metadata for each VTS cluster within the grid. This needs to be a process that can be on demand or automated. This may be a duplicate of RFE 79372 but not sure if it included all ...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

User Exit to be utilized for application consistency volume copies

In order to have application-consistent volume copies, the product should provide a user exit before and after a task for FlashCopy and/or Remote Copy in conjunction with IBM Spectrum Virtualize. Those user exits must provide a facility to handle ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Document Spectrum Fusion's CPU,Memory, and PV req's for each version

Other IBM Storage software products are publicly documenting their CPU, memory, and persistent volume sizing information. Spectrum Fusion should do this too. An example is table 2 and table 3 in this SPP support page. https://www.ibm.com/support/p...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Delivered

Support for more host site WWPN per I/O Group for IBM San Volume Controller

The customer has exhausted the WWPN hot ports inside an IBM SVC I/O Group, which his 2048. We want to know if it would be feasible to increase this value or if this is something that is technically not feasible.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered