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Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Support CEPH as S3 target on "cloud storage tier"

IBM is pursuing CEPH as one of the S3 solutions ( additional to IBM COS) We are wondering if we could certify CEPH S3 interface as TS7700 offload target for TS7770C so we have the chance to use IBM COS or CEPH when deploying IBM S3 solutions onprem
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 0 Planned for future release

IBM Storage Fusion support for mutiple (1, 2 or 3) replica deployment model and lower infrastrucutre cost

Many modern OpenShift workloads are doing application level HA with deployment across AZ with transaction replication. The most prominant of these from the IBM SW portfolio are CP4I and CP4BA. For these workloads, their deployment with Fusion Data...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

DSCLI updated to work with Azul JAVA

Oracle are looking to charge customers for JAVA utilities. https://redresscompliance.com/decoding-oracle-java-licensing-java-licensing-changes-2023/#:~:text=entire%20employee%20population.-,Did%20Oracle%20change%20the%20Java%20license%3F,old%20PRO...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Planned for future release

Fusion HCI internal Scale Storage as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF

Enable so the internal Scale Storage in Fusion HCI can be used as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF. Using ODF on top of redundancy in Scale causes very low storage utilization without real incremental redundancy benefits. Some kind of st...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

DS8 Create Volume Sets Summary View Should Include Column to Show if Volumes are to be Mapped to a Host/Cluster or Not

In the Create Volumes view in DS8 9.3 GUI, when we create a new Volume Set and Save it, the summary table of volume sets to create includes Volume Name, Pools, LSSs, Volume Addresses, Capacity, and Provisioning, but there is no indication in that ...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

DS8 IBM i Volumes Should Include Modern Sizes in Dropdown

When creating IBM i volumes, the default size dropdown includes all the way from 8 GiB to 262.9 GiB, however with all of our modern IBM i environment, the minimum size we use for iASP at least is 477 GiB, which means that we always just have to ch...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

DS8 2 Improvements to Create Volumes from Host Context Menu

When a user chooses the Create Volumes option from the Host context menu, that it limit down the provided options to volume types that are actually compatible to the Host Type. Eg if the host is AS/400 then only include "Create Volumes for IBM i"....
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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