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    Provide helper to determine metadata size

    We have a GNR cluster with > 650 million files, distributed over two filesystems. All disks are DataAndMetadata. Policy runs and mmbackup are taking very long. One speedup suggestion of the GPFS support was to use explicit metadata storage. Unf...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    DS8K - Dual Control for operational activities

    Add Dual Control function to any operational activities on the DS8K HMC to increase resilience and protect from insider attacks
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    DS8K - Single Sign ON (SSO) with OIDC

    Add SSO support via OIDC to externalize authentication and enable multi factor authentication on the DS8K HMC
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Support Storage Scale Stretch cluster with metroDR of FusionSDS

    IBM always push SDS approach. Giving customers the chance to use Storage Scale SW version as Active/ative storage ( stretch cluster) on fusion SDS will open us lots of opportunities
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Future consideration

    The different pokes for DS8K subsystems should be documented

    In DS8K there exist different pokes - which is internal settings that change the default Microcode behavior. A poke is typically set by a DS8K SME based on a case. But as it could help solve problems for you, you need to know that the poke exists....
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    When doing reclamation, recalls should go to other pool copy in 2nd library during reclamation

    This helps reclamation to go much quicker, not being paused by recalls on the same tape!
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    MFA support with IBM Verify

    Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of DS8000. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Get the HighWater mark of Safeguarded Copy used capacity

    We would like to know the maximal used of the Safeguarded Copy capacity for a volume. This will improve the monitoring of SafeguardedCopy and will help to define a good multiplier (and be sure we can backup the full volume, in addition to regular ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    add option for the tgtread status

    We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
    about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pool Storage Space Reduction

    Bosch is requesting a Spectrum Protect server administrative command which allows the administrator to reclaim container storage pool space including deletion of empty volumes from the file system.In an optimal implementation, the administrative c...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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