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Password expire message on GUI

Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

To enable Almalinux OS support on IBM Defender.

The is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open source community-supported computing platform, and AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatibl...
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

add affected storage system / path for the message IWNR1963W

The message IWNR1963W is: One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed. Sometime there are micro network issue that makes the path have a punctual error. As we have several storage system in ou...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

API endpoint consideration: show file list under a directory

Currently the gpfs API does not support returning file list under a directory. This limits the developer's ability to retrieve accurate file paths while working with other API endpoints (e.g. get ACL).
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

DS8000 should send SNMP message (SNM038I) in EBCDIC format, instead of ASCII.

DS8000 family is an "enterprise-class storage for IBM Z". ASCII is not the standard mainframe encoding format. Converting from ASCII to character is not an easy task. We automate SNM038I via IBM System Automation. To interprete SNM038I (in ASCII f...
7 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Storage Insights should support the creation of hosts for NVMe-attached devices.

Storage Insights does not currently support the creation ofhosts for NVMe-attached devices.It needs to include the hosts that are zoned with the NVME protocol in addition to the SAN Capacity (GiB) field.
8 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted