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    Improve zOS host IP connection loss detection and failover behavior

    There have been incidents in the field showing the current design of CSM z/OS host IP connection loss detection and failover to redundant active host connection is significantly delayed to 15-20 minutes. This may happen especially when the connect...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    SCDM support on Other Hypervisors such as KVM, Hyper-V ... and also make it available as a standalone binary to de deployed on both PowerVM (Linux and/or AIX) and x86 Linux.

    With the recent VMware licensing changes a lot of customers has moved away from it and adopting other hypervisors. In Sentinel Bundle the SCDM component which plays the role of external orchestrator to the storage is only supported on VMware see h...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    add option to only create gpfs.snap around a failed pdisk.

    currently when i create a snap with say --limit-large-files latest i get a 4GB snap from a single ESS3500 which takes way too long if i just want to report a failed disk to IBM support and they need a snap from the system to verify... please add a...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Extend node replication to allow it to also replicate decommissioned state of nodes

    In a replication environment (data and metadata is replicated from source to target server) it is currently not possible to "decomm node" for nodes that are replicated. One has to first disable replication for nodes before being able to decommissi...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

    For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    DS8K - Copy Services - Mirroring Path GUI improvement

    Currently in the Copy Services menu the 'mirroring path' reports the current secondary site with a wrong status. As visible in the attached screen print (visible here: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DS80-I-270), only the current prim...
    12 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Is a defect

    Allow data-lock cloud containers to be reclaimed

    I would like to have the feature "Reclaim Containers" available when using datalock stgpools. Looking at my SPOC console, I will have 263.3TB of data that could be reclaimed from my cloud storage pool. Since this is not supported because I'm using...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    For tickets that are showing on Storage Insights have a hyperlink to the IBM ticket

    This will eliminate the need to copy and paste the ticket number into the IBM support site. The hyperlink will take you there eliminating the copy paste process as well as saving time
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    We would like TDMF to be able to increase the size of the VTOC during a migration also for same sized volumes, not only from a smaller to a larger volume.

    It would be a nice improvement to take advantage of a migration with TDMF to be able to expand the size of the vtoc for same sized volumes. We don't unerstand that it can do it only from smaller to larger volumes meanwhile it has the ability to do...
    9 months ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Submitted

    Threat Detection Sensor OpenShift

    IBM FlashSystem has RTD based on FCM4, Defender uses Sensor (in file-system) to detect threats. We should have similar functions in containerized Envirnments (Openshift) to detect and report an early attack
    7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

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