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    The logical volume is stuck mounting due to an interrupted operation (job abort, LPAR IPL, or other disruptive action taken on the host side for various reasons). In this case, ITAU would like to know WHICH volume was left mounted and requires operator intervention (either via host or MI) to unload it and prevent future job errors with CBR4196D-67 (Requested volume already in use). Regarding ITAU's request to be informed of which level is causing the CBR3750I G0032 message, since it is still mounted: This would be a new function request (nonexistent at current code levels). It is not a code defect.

    Why are we seeing CBR3750I G0032_Informational_C_ TS7700_XX_ copies queued for more than 24 hours? The logical volume is stuck mounting due to an interrupted operation (job abort, LPAR IPL, or other disruptive action taken on the host side for var...
    7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

    The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Adding NVMe support for ESXi and Windows HyperV to Policy Based High Availability (PBHA)

    Clients want to exploit the host performance advantages of NVMe compared to traditional SCSI over Fibre Channel.
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Support for Hyperswap - Linux on Z.

    Hello Development and Product management teams. I would like to suggest an enhancement to the DS8000 related to the high availability solution, Hyperswap. We are seeing an increasing number of customers adopting Linux on Z, and one of these custom...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    When registering an SQL server source (single instance or AAG) allow both an OS login account and SQL account to be specified.

    Within SQL server, you can allow authentication/authorization to be done via OS accounts (local or domain) OR only allow database tasks such as DBA roles be controlled by SQL Server accounts. Some organizations consider the latter to be more secur...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM

    As many customer looking forward from OLVM solution , Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM was discussed. This includes support for setting up the Spectrum Control application and also the data migration from VMWare based VM to OLV...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

    use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Threat Detection for Ceph

    IBM FlashSystem has RTD based on FCM4, Defender uses Sensor (in file-system) to detect threats. We should have similar functions in Ceph to detect and report an early attack.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

    Add clip functionality to ZCPYS / CSM

    Add functionality to ZCPYS and/or CSM to enable the clip of the VSN prefix on any flashcopy session. For example - we take a FlashCopy of a system with a VSN prefix of VA. Use ZCPYS to change the VSN prefix on the Flash Copy session from VA to VQ ...
    9 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Improve fragment allocation when very large number of NSDs and allocation regions.

    Current fragment allocation behavior for small files or shrink-to-fit operation looks only on the region's local list. If nothing fits it allocates a full block for the small file. This causes a problem when billions of small files are created in ...
    18 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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