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    FlashSystem rails incompatible with 3rd party racks

    Client / reseller reports issues with installation of current generation of IBM FlashSystem rack-mount rails within non-IBM racks. Previous generation Storwize rails (V3700 was mentioned) fit into the same racks without issue.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

    TS7700 Feature License panel should list "enabled"

    Add column to feature license panel. Features are listed as activated but does not indicate if enabled. The additional column could be "Status" - ENABLED/DISABLED or "Enabled" YES/NO. Another option would be to issue a CLI command listing all lice...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    add option to PROTECT STGPOOL TYPE=LOCAL to select the target pool

    The definition of a container storage pool allows to specify up to two local protection pools (tape). When the "protect stgpool type=local" command is used to update the local protection pool(s) there is currently no way to have it update only one...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    BA Client Support for MAC based on Apple Silicon CPUs

    We have many MAC-users with new Apple Silicon CPUs inside. In client requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apple-macintosh-client-requirements#Release%208.1 is noted "Apple silicon-based Macintosh, by using conversion mechanism Rosetta 2 ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    v5000 shows as 2076 instead of 2078 when zoned to SVC

    When customer adds a V5000 backend stores and zones to the SVC, it shows as a 2076 (V7000) instead of 2078 (V5000). Customer would like this to represent the correct M/T for the storage type added.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    More detailed queue information for SpectrumScale AFM prefetch via the use of a reference ID.

    We would like IBM to consider tagging SpectrumScale AFM prefetch requests with a request id such that we can reference the status of a particular request - in particular if there's multiple requests being performed on a single fileset.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    dsmc backup image shall support HACMP filesystems

    When you have large filesystems with 100 milliions of files the normal TSM client is not usefull for doing daily incremental backup. Even with the journal based backup this is not applicable. You can use the dsmc backup image command. But if the f...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    allow users to add a delay to trigger ESC quorum race in case of sites being disconnected to allow for SAN re-connection

    allow users to add a few seconds to the SVC re-try and decision process before triggering a quorum race in case of loss of connection between sites. This would allow redundant inter-site connection to complete SAN connectivity between sites fail o...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Add Ansible for SLES at Scale Toolkit packaging

    As known, Ansible is required for Scale Toolkit. The installation of Ansible is done through pip3 install and it connects to a repository to install Ansible. Some clients, special in financial sector, have restrictions to make their servers with e...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

    When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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