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Introduce a new command to create additional cache copies within a grid out of existing ones

It is required to have the possibility to create new copies of virtual tapes out of existing (cache) copies in the same grid. As of today, it is not possible to create additional cached copies once the CCP is correct. TS7700 does not distinguish t...
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Under review

Introduce a new value for the maximum allowed PMTHLVL in the SETTING or SETTING2 command response

It is required to have the currently allowed maximum of PMTHLVL in the SETTING(2) Library Request command response, e.g. as PMTHMAX This way it is possible to have a check running to verify against the current setting of PMTHLVL. Rational: It is p...
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Under review

DS8880 - Increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server to 512

Sicoob is requesting IBM's support for to increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server and DS8880 to 512, once on VMware side this support is possible.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

After TLS certificate expires, IBM Spectrum Protect Server automatically renews the previous certificate distributed to nodes.

IBM Spectrum Protect Server TLS certificate expires 10 years after the server instance is created. Immediately after the expiration, all client nodes are unable to connect to the server. One of my customers provides a backup service in their priva...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Adding options to loading DSCLI(DS Command Line Interface)

Loading the DSCLI code from Windows/IBM i requires Java 8 or newer plus using the ftp protocol. When the company has removed the use of Oracle Java and replace with another version of Java for the company to use, Second, company has block the use ...
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 3 Future consideration

Enable TCP keepalive also for inbound connections

Currently the dsmserv enables TCP Keepalive only for outbound connections, as the KEEPALIVE server option describes. However, for the server it's more interesting to have TCP Keepalive for inbound connections in order to be able to detect connecti...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Default Lifecycle Policy

Setting up a default lifecycle policy from the cluster management which would be in effect for every bucket by default unless the bucket owner puts a custom lifecycle policy on the bucket. This would in effect force the users to either set-up thei...
11 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Planned for future release

make environmental stats available in SVC nodes

For a while now, Storwize and FlashSystem controllers support environmental statistics like watts used and temperature, which can be queried by 'lsenclosurestats'. Funnily, no recent SVC generation supports this command, ie SV1/2/3 and SA2. Many c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Add support for reverse flashcopy with HyperSwap volumes

Currently a reverse flashcopy (restore) is not supported to a HyperSwap volume. The request is to be able to do a restore of a flashcopy to a hyperswap volume.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Ability to alter the audit log retention period

Hello! We recently came across the need to reduce the audit log retention period of a storage scale system to save some space and we realized that the only way to do that is to disable and re-enable the audit log feature altogether. As an end user...
29 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

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