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    Include Custom Roles in LDAP Export

    Small ask on DS8 configuration. When setting up security on DS8s we create custom roles in addition to the administrator and monitor roles. When we export the LDAP Remote Authentication configuration to import into another DS8 the custom roles are...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Ability to change the time zone of TS7700 / TSSC NTP server etc currently stuck with UTC

    I had a case open with IBM as we have setup alerting for the TSSC and TS7700 devices which go to a logging and monitoring tool. We noticed that the time on the events that were coming from the devices were in UTC. After looking at changing the tim...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Operation Center option to only send report if there is output

    Operation Center "Configure Report" should have a checkbox to prevent sending a report if there is no output.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

    Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR support for CP4BA

    A lot of customers are already on CP4BA on OpenShift, and using FDF as their storage solution. There is a need for a Disaster Recovery solution using Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR, and to be tested with CP4BA especially these capabilities: BA...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Include VOLSER information in Cognos Reporting for Spectrum Control

    On version 5.3.x and previous versions of Spectrum Control, VOLSER data for DS8000 arrays was present in Cognos using the Storage Volume Name. In 5.4.x, the output of Storage Volume Name is different (using the CKD volume name); the VOLSER informa...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    gpfs enhance NFS performance in chip design domain

    we expect GPFS to enhance NFS performance to accommodate small file scenarios in the chip design domain to beat netapp
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    fileset QoS distinguish read and write

    we expect fileset QoS distinguish read and write to enhance the flexibility of QoS, also expect metadata support qos
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Enhancment to Spectrum Scale DMAPI - dmapiEventTimeout code

    The Spectrum Scale Data Management API for HSM integration has a configuration parameter dmapiEventTimeout with specific behaviour for NFS environments. However, this behaviour does not translate to other protocol scenarios such as AFM, SMB or Obj...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Implement console mode installation to support clean server installations

    Remove the need for using a "GUI" server for Spectrum Protect Server. When running the SP on a true server instance, then only allowing GUI install is limiting our environment and also makes installation more complicated due to VM/OS itself but a...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

    Ability to set a low water mark used capacity threshold for flash/SCM tiers.

    Hypothetical Use case: Easy tier hybrid pool with tier 0 flash, tier 1 flash and tier nearline. In the current scenario, when a lot of cold data resides on tier 1, these extents will be migrated to nearline regardless of whether tier 1 extents are...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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