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Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

Include environmental informations (humidity/temperature) into REST-API GET Drives and GET Library output

In order to ensure the operation of a TS4500 according to the defined environmental specifications, it must be possible to query these values directly without first collecting and evaluating drive logs and converting specific pages / hex codes to ...
15 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

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 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Improve CSMCLI scripting by enabling an echo and echoprefix

In DSCLI, you can define echo on/off and you can set an echoprefix. In CSMCLI, this is still not available. When running CSMCLI in script mode, you see in the output dataset only the command response, but not command itself and you see only the IP...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration
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Enhancement to DS8K's HMC power supply redundancy

We request more power paths for HMC of DS8K. My customer had the incident that two IO enclosures (#3 and #4) fail in DS8886 and both HMCs were cut off from the power path, making the HMCs unusable. As a result, logging and remote support could not...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Developing a SW Storage Enabler for Windows Failover Clustering module

I believe that part of the laboratory that develops the "Storage Virtualize" code is made up of people who dealt with XiV, at least that's what Stefano Mensa (IBM) told me. For the XiV platform IBM had developed a SW Storage Enabler for Windows Fa...
5 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
23 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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