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    Add an 'absolute' logout for DS8 GUI and CLI

    Along with the idle timeout on the DS8 GUI, further security restrictions are requiring us to have an 'absolute' logout time. Even if session is NOT idle a login could not be longer than 12 hours (for example). This should be included on the DS8 G...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    mmbackup: Backup extended acls separately to eliminate "updated" backup

    mmbackup should generate a database of file/dir extended acls and back up such database so that TSM can be run with the SKIPACL option enabled. When the only change to a file is its extended acl or permissions, it is a waste of resources having to...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Support for SI and SI PRO entitled storage sytsems in ONE instance - with SI PRO capabilities switched on / off according to system entitlement

    As of today, we cannot have a mixture of SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems in one environment. SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems can reside in one SI instance, but to exploit SI PRO capabilities, a second SI instance for SI PRO entitled ...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)

    Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Support Fibre Channel (FC) adapters on Fusion HCI for SAN connectivity

    With Fusion HCI Control Tower and ability to created Hosted Clusters, there is a demand from customers to connect their existing SAN storage using CSI drivers. Therefore, we need Fusion HCI baremetal nodes to support FC cards - 32Gbps dual-port Em...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    Dscli output file in code page IBM-1047 when running in z/OS environment

    I use dscli from Z/OS system and using Java batch procédure. When i execute the following commands : offloadfile -perfdata /tmp offloadfile -fcdata /tmp the resulting file is in code page iso8859-1 and not ibm-1047. So to interpret the file file i...
    9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Able to monitor and set maintenance mode on external services such as GKLM servers or other dependencies in GPFS GUI and via CLI/REST-API.

    If you have two or more GKLM servers connected to your IBM Storage Scale cluster there is no way to via GPFS GUI disable warnings from GKLM servers (At least not in a user friendly way that I know about) . So when you do maintenance on one of your...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    If an SSID participating in a PPRC relationship needs to be changed, DSGUI/DSCLI should provide a warning when attempting a chlcu for an LCU participating in a PPRC relationship.

    We encountered a hardware error starting a GM session where we had duplicate SSIDs between the source and target PPRC LSSs. To resolve this, we used the GUI to change the SSID on the target LSS. Although the change was successful it would have bee...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    When a PPRC session is being built within CSM, if the source and target SSIDs match, there should be a warning or a message that clearly states why this is a problem.

    We had a configuration error in our PPRC target where the SSID of the target was the same is the primary. CSM allowed us to create the copyset even though the SSIDs were not unique.
    10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

    Request for Product Qualification: Fortanix

    Customer is needing to integrate their DS8's into their new Fortanix external key manager. They are requesting IBM's support to officially support the EKM on DS8. DS8000 storage system - 88.59.53.0 DS8900 storage system - 89.41.25.0 DS8A00 model A...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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