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Add a setting to the "Update System" page to only suggest LTS releases

Every time I log into my FlashSystem UI it tells me there is an update recommended, suggesting the latest non-LTS release. In our production environment, we only want to be notified when an LTS update is available. A setting to "only show updates ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Allow full Box or multiple Subsystem selections in ESE and SGC Sizer sessions

When ESEsizer or SGCsizer sessions are configured, typically they are configured for a large amount of LSS/LCUs if not even for all volumes configured on the system. However, the Copy Set selection wizard does not allow to proceed, when only a sys...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Export performance data to any support case

The Export Performance Data action in Storage Insights has 2 options for where the data goes. Upload to a support case Download to the local system If the user chooses Upload, Storage Insights restricts the upload specifically to a case for that s...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Add an option to sendcloudcallhome to allow users to test that they will be able to get to new support IPs, before the old ones are removed.

There are occasional changes to the support ips ( for example: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6991259 ). It would be beneficial to be able to test connections to the new IPs before the old ones are removed. An option could be added to the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Keep supporting directly attached FlashSystem storage on IBM i

Reading this page: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7032023 it states: -- quote -- IBM i connected using directly attached Fibre Channel IBM i is not supported as a host operating system when connected using directly attached Fibre Channel t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

TS7700 SSL cetficate for AWS

My client would like to use a certifcate for the SSL connection to AWS S3 buckets.
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

Improved LDAP support for Security Administrator users in DS8000

If you want to use the Export/Import LDAP Remote Authentication configuration option, and you have at least one Security Administrator (SA) user defined, when you Import the existing configuration in a new DS8000, the SA user is not imported becau...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Renew Certificate for all clients

Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...

New power supply models

A dozen of power supplies replacement in less than 6 months on two TS4300. The quality of this components have to be reviewed.
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Delivered

Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered