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    Fail job when cleanup fails

    Currently a CDM job will import file systems, scan for threats, and then remove the file systems. However, if the cleanup (removing file systems, removing volume groups/disks/etc.) fails, the CDM web site shows the overall job as a success. This c...
    8 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

    We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Future consideration

    Once a code upgrade begins, we should block Customers DS GUI logins with a "banner" stating code upgrade is in "progress".

    Clients, especially new ones who are not familiar with DS8000 tend to get upset when they are attempting to access the DS GUI during a microcode upgrade and find that they cannot. This will alleviate a great deal of frustration and uncertainly for...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus hardware snapshot support

    Spectrum Protect Plus currently do not support hardware snapshots as the current Spectrum Protect Snapshot a.k.a. FCM software does - and current Spectrum CDM has no option to recover (flash-revert) the production copy from a snapshot.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Have Volume Group next scheduled snapshot be DST aware

    When you have a daily snapshot policy setup for a volume group, the next scheduled snapshot is always 24 hours later. When daylight savings time is involved, this will lead to the snap shot being taken 1 hour later/earlier in the day (according to...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

    When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    IBM Storage Insights - Support for TLS 1.3

    Currently the highest version of TLS supported is TLS 1.2 only. This is to request TLS 1.3 support for the collector. Disabling the collection of metadata for devices that use TLS 1.0 or 1.1 - IBM Documentation only mentions TLS1.2 which will be u...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    DSCLI Password Field

    With recent versions of the DSCLI utility, we can no longer programmatically populate the password field and must instead rely exclusively on the built‑in pwfile mechanism. Additionally, we are unable to use the -passwd flag directly on the comman...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Provide support for SHA384 certificate signature algorithm

    Today only SHA256 certifiate signature algorithm is supported. SHA256 is the standard industry choice whereby SHA384 is mostly required for high-security environments, financial/government, compliance requirements.
    5 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Functionality already exists

    Is it possible to enable greater than 512 kNFS threads in CNFS? Ideally, the client would like to set the thread count to a max of 4096 (up from the 512 limit).

    MLP has requested that IBM enable the ability to test with more than 512 kNFS threads in CNFS due to performance issues observed in their environment. Specifically, MLP wants to increase the thread count to 2048 or 4096. MLP is aware that CNFS is ...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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