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    Implementing other message codes for SNMP trap 221

    The client configuration is using DS8900 with Safe Guarded Copy At the moment when they see an SNMP trap trigger for trap 221 they only receive Message Code 10, which is telling them it's already removing space. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    Enable Password Expiry Visibility in Storage Defender

    Storage Defender currently lacks a feature to display or monitor password expiry dates for user accounts. This limitation affects all account types, including both individual user accounts and functional accounts used for automation and integratio...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Remote Pair Flashcopy for GM (Global Mirror)

    This functionality is currently our highest priority for upcoming microcode enhancements. We are awaiting this capability to enable DB2 image copies—and more broadly, any FlashCopy operations—without negatively impacting our Global Mirror (GM) Rec...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Functionality already exists

    maxruntime parameter does not honor admin schedules with wait=yes

    The maxruntime parameter could not be used for administrative schedules where processes with wait=yes are started. APAR IT21651 documents the behavior.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

    Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

    Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Provide Notification When PPRC link failure rate is high on all PPRC paths

    We recently had a WAN issue where one of the circuits was experiencing very high packet loss for carrier A. Even though there was a second healthy circuit provided by carrier B, the failure rate was so high on carrier A's circuit that all PPRC pat...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    SPP Container Backup Support for multiple storage classes

    Container backup support at the moment only supports container native storage class, we would like to add more storage classes to be supported with one solution.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    IBM SV data change rate integrated report

    IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

    Improve LTO9 Optimization Process

    The (wizard) process to OPTIMIZE LTO 9 Media is a painful long process that does not allow the library or drives not involved in the optimization to be used. We would like to see an improvement not only in the time it takes to optimize the media (...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 10 Not under consideration

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