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Increase TS3000 TSSC password to more than the 16 character limit

Passwords are increasing in the length. Our firm requires a minimum 16 character password as a standard. The TSSC webUI seems to have a 16 character limit whereas the TS7700 webUI supports longer passwords. We use LDAP and a single signon methodol...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Outboard copy inhibit

Provide capability to reset "Outboard Copy Inhibit" flag on the DS8000. This flag is set by mvs software - e.g. TDMF and can be reset by MVS DEVSERV commands. However, a backdoor DS8000 method to do this is absent.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any tape is written with no encryption

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any tape is written with no encryption for any reason. This helps to avoid any unencrypted tapes being created in the environment.
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Planned for future release

SVC/Spectrum Control iSCSI monitoring

Client wishes to have the ability to monitor performance of their iSCSI connections on SVC using Spectrum Control as they do today on their FC connections. They feel that the underlying technology is there, but do not understand why they cannot ha...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Planned for future release

Enhance the monitoring and reporting the internal RAID card's degradation

5148-22L's internal RAID card's degradation caused severe performance impact. However, its degradation was not monitored by HW&SW. Therefore, the user could not found this HW problem.ESS should be enhanced as monitoring the card and reporting ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Planned for future release

Global Mirror with Change Volume --> dynamic increase

Protection against Cyber attack --> SGC installation requires a Remote Copy relation to a third FlashSystem. GM with CV is one of the options to avoid impact to the primary storage. The connected AIX VIO hosts need an easy way to increase volum...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

SPP - Sort lists / Provide user ability to sort

Lists in the user interface are not sorted: vSnap servers, VADP servers, SLAs when assigning an SLA to a VM, etc. All lists should be sorted by default and should also provide the user the ability to click any column to sort by that column.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Alerting creation with OR condition

Currently multi conditional condition rule are using AND condition, in some situation ( for example where the threshold is the same) it would be efficient to create one rule with a OR condition
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Enable FCM to use thin-provisioned target volumes if source volumes are thin provisioned

Currently it is not possible to use thin-provisioned target volumes as COPY (only with NOCOPY) with FCM even if the source volumes are thin-provisioned. This means for us to loose a lot of space for target volumes. The functionality is implemented...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release