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E-mail notification when ticket is successfully created, and log successfully uploaded

SI allow to create, update ticket and upload logsUser should receive an e-mail notification when one of these actions is successful or fail
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

When using Protocol nodes, the export IPs should be the only one to allow mounting shares

With the use of Protocol Nodes, the CES requires IPs for export shares. However, even having the IP specific for share, the internal IPs (NODE IPs), which are used for administration only, also allow the NFS Mounts. The request is to isolate the n...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Message IWNR6000I doesn't show the good direction of replication.

When i start GC H2-H1 the message sent by CSM is IWNR6000I Starting all pairs in role pair H1-H2. The message is confusing because it doesn't reflect the direction of the command.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

Make policy creation use case easier

When creating a policy there are 3 very common stumbling blocks that force them to abandon the definition and start over from step 1. These problems are, roughly in order of occurrence: ***** A. User forgot to define tag for the policy. Currently,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Support for up to 8 IO Group Systems

Seeking support for up to 8 SVC IO groups, 16 nodes in total.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

NVMeoF vVol Protocol Endpoints support is missing.

As of now (8.6.3.0) there is only support for SCSI PE's in a VMware/vVol environment. So, VMFS volumes work fine with End-to-End NVMeoF from host to storage, vVol does not.To use vVols (which is a perfect match with NVMeoF) i need to create duplic...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

SVC stretch cluster volume select preffered node

When creating a new SVC stretch cluster volume, the site location (or the preferred node ID) cannot be selected. Also, it cannot be set until after the format of the volume is done. But can be changed at a later time using movevdisk.We need a func...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Network Virtualization Fusion

In telecommunications industry we cannot use standard virtualization with Fusion HCI. This will open us a new market segment
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

TS4500 LDAP auth has a flaw

User authentication up against LDAP does not work in our environment. The reason for that is that we have brackets in our AD users Display Name. That issue was discovered in IBM case TS005232687It is not an option to delete the brackets in our AD ...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Build 3390 with a track size 64K or larger.

Currently 3390 has a track size around 54Kb. It would be great to have a track 64Kb to write larger records in VSAM. We have a need in our Medical Record System stores several procedure codes and we are always running out of space in the record. I...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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