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    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

    NTP updates needed

    Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
    10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    PPRC with LUN's greater than 4TB

    The customer in CMVC 372631 (BANK_OF_PIRAEUS) wants to migrate data from DS8900 (75KND00) to DS8A00 (78NWC50); involving volumes with a size of more than 4 TB. Current code has a boundary to allow for replication of a volume above a size of 4TB.
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Volume creation with CSI based on capacity and/or performance of target FlashSystems

    Customer is finishing a PoC that will select OpenShift as their VMware replacement platform. During their day-to-day operations, they provision a large number of volumes for new workloads. This will increase with OpenShift, which requires more vol...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Flashsystem Storage systems to have basic monitoring capability in the GUI itself. Eg: alert or notify on volume capacity used or state based on set threshold on the system itself. Basically, the system itself to have basic/flexible monitoring capability

    This is useful when we look at the system we can get all kind of alert/notification including volume used capacity. This will enhance visibility with respect to monitoring and alerting and will add an extra layer of protection from causing outage ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    A command to reapply management class on a volume or list of volumes

    Objective is to reduce migration time and correction time in case of error.
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    CSM Server restart & ESSNI restart confirmation in CSM

    Following a CSM Server restart, or ESSNI restart through the hardware management console, there should be an indication/event in the logs that that happened. Currently, there is no way to verify within CSM, that a restart of either of these compon...
    11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    checkMK . FlashSystem Plugin update

    Some of our customers use Checkmk as their monitoring tool instead of IBM Storage Insights. To ensure compatibility and optimal performance, it would be beneficial to update the current plugin to support the latest IBM Flash System Family.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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