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    When doing reclamation, recalls should go to other pool copy in 2nd library during reclamation

    This helps reclamation to go much quicker, not being paused by recalls on the same tape!
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Better multi-tenancy support User ID wise

    Hello, It would be great if the TS7700 provide improved multi-tenancy support for user IDs. For example, the ability to partition Hydra (Web) MI access so that individual users or clients can only view and manage their own “area” within the cluste...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Completely deactivate LI REQ support

    Hello, In a multi-tenant environment, where each tenant individually manages their RACF configuration, it would be important to have the ability to completely deactivate LI REQ support via the Hydra (web) Management Interface (MI) or through a RES...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: IPv6 Support

    Support for IPv6 networking with CES S3 (Noobaa)
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Add Deleting Volumes to background processes when removing from DRP pool

    When we've deleted volumes from the GUI they had removed but when we went onto the cli it showed these as deleting, this would be useful to show in the background tasks as then we could have seen these were still being removed off the storage as t...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Log of a scheduled task in a dedicated window

    When i run a scheduled task, the result is in console log. So if a problem happened and i have activity on CSM console log the failing message is difficult to find and also it is not easier to cath all actions doned by the script. It can be easier...
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Larger window when you modify a scheduled task

    When i want to change a scheduled task, a window is opened inside the window. The new window is small and i can't see all informations concerning the task unless i have a large screen. I have to move with the mouse to read all informations or see ...
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

    Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Support request for Tx and Rx power metrics on SAN switches to monitor possibly faulty SFP transceivers

    One of my customers wants to monitor the SFP transceivers' power levels, both transmit and receive, on their SAN switches, because they have had link failure issues caused by faulty transceivers in the past. I know it is hard to diagnose those iss...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    introduce "lsvolume" as a successor for "lsvdisk" to better meet today's architectural designs

    A few years ago, additional features such as e.g. Hyperswap have been introduced and required a better differentiation of types of volumes (a.k.a. vdisks). Hence new commands such as "mkvolume" or "lsvolumehostmap", "addvolumecopy" etc. had been i...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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