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    Ability to set a legal notice on login page to GUI and TSSC

    Ability to set a legal notice on login to GUI and TSSC pages. A requirement is that we have a legal notice on the login pages to the GUI/TSSC to reinforce around the computer misuse act. This is a risk requirement of the organization backed by reg...
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Safeguarded Copy offload to Cloud via TCT

    We are looking to have the ability to offload Safeguarded Copies (LCP) to the cloud via TCT (preferably S3 cloud) and maintain the capability to create a recovery copy from any of the offloaded Safeguarded Copies. Today due to physical capacity li...
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    When tape data is encrypted, but Spectrum Scale recall cache and Stub files are not, how do we encrypt those without recalling the data off tape?

    Using both Storage Archive and Storage Scale system (ESS) we need to be able to encrypt the data on ESS without impacting or recalling the tape data (Which is already encryped via the TS4500 Library). The client will be migratiing from Gen2 ESS to...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Application-Aware Recovery Readiness Assessment for IBM Copy Services Manager

    I propose adding an Application-Aware Recovery Readiness Assessment capability to IBM Copy Services Manager to help organizations determine whether their protected workloads are truly prepared for disaster recovery and operational recovery scenari...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

    Reduce or eliminate cluster-wide NFS grace period impact during Ganesha/CES node restart

    In Storage Scale CES NFS environments, restarting a single Ganesha/CES node triggers an approximately 90-second NFS grace period that impacts client I/O across the NFS service. For high-availability environments, a single gateway node restart shou...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Vates hypervisor support

    Vates is a VMware alternative based on a Xen server fork. This Hypervisor is regulary proposed like an altenative at VMware. French market is open to leave VMware but with supported storage solution.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    The logical volume is stuck mounting due to an interrupted operation (job abort, LPAR IPL, or other disruptive action taken on the host side for various reasons). In this case, ITAU would like to know WHICH volume was left mounted and requires operator intervention (either via host or MI) to unload it and prevent future job errors with CBR4196D-67 (Requested volume already in use). Regarding ITAU's request to be informed of which level is causing the CBR3750I G0032 message, since it is still mounted: This would be a new function request (nonexistent at current code levels). It is not a code defect.

    Why are we seeing CBR3750I G0032_Informational_C_ TS7700_XX_ copies queued for more than 24 hours? The logical volume is stuck mounting due to an interrupted operation (job abort, LPAR IPL, or other disruptive action taken on the host side for var...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    FlashSystem Test Encryption Key Servers from GUI / Fix Wizard

    It would be useful if the FlashSystem allowed for testing encryption key servers from the GUI and the Fix wizard. On the DS8 we can test key servers from the GUI but on the FlashSystem even when going through the Fix wizard the only option is to l...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    The DS8900 uses a 2048 bit RSA-encryption for the request and that doesn't suite our certification authority (3072 bit or better 4096 bit)

    The DS8900 uses a 2048 bit RSA-encryption for the request and that doesn't suite our certification authority (3072 bit or better 4096 bit). Even with the 9.4 release it still seems to be a 2048 bit key and there is no possibility to change/adjust ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    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...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

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