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    Support for concurrent uCode update on DS8000 ECKD for 21CS VSEn customers

    Currently, based on very old experiences with IBM z/VSE and DS8000 uCode upgrades, on the Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates for example IBM DS8900F Microcode Customer ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 5 Not under consideration

    Support for VMware v9.0

    Support for VMware Cloud foundation v9.0
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Submitted

    Allow copy suspend of PBHA partitions

    In a PBHA environment the partnership between Flashsystems can be stopped suspending the copy and then when it is partnership is re-started the copy resumes (no need to a full resync). It should be possible to stop the copy at partition level to a...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Alerts notifications by mail should include all details for the alert and not only the link to the Aler in the SI instance

    SI alert notifications by mail should include the full description/details of the alert and not only the link to the alert in the SI instance. With this you will have at good overview of the "problem" with all details and no need to go to SI insta...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

    The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

    Improved handling of MCDB-enabled databases by Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

    Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server works as designed in respect to restore scenarios. But there is a challenge with exchange mailbox restores after enabling the Microsoft Exchange MetaCacheDatabase (MCDB) feature that prevents an DP4Exc...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    killing running mmbackup processes on all participating nsd server

    In some circumstances (maintenance window / problem investigation) it is important for us to kill all mmbackup sessions on a scale cluster. We, as the storage and backup admingroup in our company struggeling currently in missing a feature that mmb...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

    For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Add samlogon cache expiry and add support for manage_gids=yes and to re-authenticate AD users in NFS with sec=sys

    The MANAGE_GIDS_EXPIRATION parameter is a configuration option within the NFS Ganesha core configuration file that controls the cache validity duration for group membership information (GID) lookups. The netsamlogon_cache.tdb file in Samba stores ...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Allow Backup-Archive Client on Windows 11 Environment with Cloud Only (Azure) users

    As stated from IBM Support, Azure Users are not supported: Currently, the Spectrum Protect (TSM) Backup-Archive Client fails to run on Windows 11 if the cloud only user (Azure) is not a local administrator, even when added to the "Backup Operators...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

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