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Frame swap challenge when using Delayed Premigration. I call it "Autonomic prepare of frame swap when using Delay Premigration”

Below idea is related to frame swap from old TS7700T subsystem to new TS7700T. Meaning virtual tape having a backend Tape Library(ie TS4500) and backend Pdrives/Pvols. When preparing frame swap, due to hardware renewal, you need to be well prepare...
about 2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Under review

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'versioning' in S3 buckets

Versioning in Amazon S3 is a means of keeping multiple variants of an object in the same bucket. You can use the S3 Versioning feature to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your buckets. With versioning you can...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Balanced usage of tape drive generations. Changing behaviour of librarymanager when selecting drive for tape mount.

The idea is: When using a specific format in a deviceclass, the tapedrives selection alogorithm should not discriminate tapedrives with higher capabilities In an environment with different tapedrive models (for example TS1155 and TS1160) but all d...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

REST-API request for managing certificates

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Increase logical paths limit of 512 for Control Unit

We had this idea opened for z/OS and HCD (https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4129), but through cases TS017155124 and TS017074516, it was suggested to open an IDEA directed to the DS8Ks. We use shared DASDs to t...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Integration with Storage Insights

Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2