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    TS7700 (TSSC) - Simplify Certificate Management - accept .pfx or .p12 certificate format

    As the TSSC does not support to generate a certificate on the machine itself and only create a sign request. I need to order (from a CA) a certificate that holds the private and public key in a .p12 or .pfx format. However, to upload I have to man...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 (TSSC) - simple deletion of all default certificates

    TSSC shall offer the option to delete all default certificates with a single click and allow to delete all expired certificates with a single click as well.
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 (TSSC) - Certificates - allow selection of multiple entries

    Certificate management shall switch from 'radio' button to 'check-box' to allow multiple entries to be deleted with a single click. Currently I have to select a single entry, click delete, select the next one, click delete and so on. If check boxe...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Query for bitmap increment status

    During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Submitted

    add full DB2 Backup and Restore support to DDP

    we use DDP for VMware, AD, MS SQL, Container, Mongo DB, physical server, clusters and as an S3 target for all applications without agent support or embedded S3 support. Our biggest workload, IBM DB2, is the only application still on ISP. That make...
    5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    ECE cluster node replacement with different sized disks than original node

    If an existing ECE cluster has a NVMe tier (system pool, metadataAndData) consists of 12T SSD and a node replacement occurs with a node with 24T SSD How does ECE behave in this case? We are considering uplifting our NVMe tier to 24T SSDs, but need...
    21 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Storwize host creation should allow delimited WWPNs for input

    Storwize should allow for the use of delimited wwpns (eg c0:00:...., c0-00-....) in host creation dialogues and mkhost commands. The network view allows for viewing the wwpns in several formats with or without delimiters, but input requires the us...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    SVC spare node functionality at Flash Grid level

    Currently, SVC spare node is assigned to a SVC cluster. With new Flash Grid approach and storage partition mobility, only single I/O groups are supported. Thus, a natural evolution of multiple I/O group SVC clusters would be multiple single I/O Gr...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    AlwaysOn Servermon lslv lspv AIX commands need to be changed to prevent hang situations

    Today, the Storage Protect server AlwaysOn Servermon issues the following commands to gather information about AIX logical and physical volumes: lsvg -o | lsvg -illsvg -o | lsvg -ip lspv -l ... in a loop for all hdisks. We request to add -L option...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

    Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

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