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DS8000 WUI LDAP enhancements

We would like to see anonymous binding capability for LDAP with Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD). Today MSAD LDAP requires a bind ID and Password, which need to be rotated frequently - doing so on 100+ HMCs is not practical and it would also requ...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

SVC stretch cluster volume select preffered node

When creating a new SVC stretch cluster volume, the site location (or the preferred node ID) cannot be selected. Also, it cannot be set until after the format of the volume is done. But can be changed at a later time using movevdisk.We need a func...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC stretched cluster learning Easy Tier heatmap on secondf copy of Vdisk mirror

Easy Tier considers each pool separately, without knowledge about mirrored VDisks. In a stretched cluster with full site awareness and host failover cluster as application, the pool in the production site (where the host failover cluster lives mos...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

mmchconfig maxblocksize is not dynamically changeable

PMR TS001057386.Spectrum Scale in Version 5 has a new maxblocksize default. But to Change these for old Clusters all Daemon must be down to change these parameter. The request here mmchconfig maxblocksize should be dynamicaly changeable without co...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

vRealize Automation (vRA) / vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin with SPP

Ability to interface SPP with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

When using Protocol nodes, the export IPs should be the only one to allow mounting shares

With the use of Protocol Nodes, the CES requires IPs for export shares. However, even having the IP specific for share, the internal IPs (NODE IPs), which are used for administration only, also allow the NFS Mounts. The request is to isolate the n...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Protect Stgpool target to cloud container

We need protect stgpool to work with cloud containers as a target pool.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 to the IBM DS8000

The future of DS8000 for IBM Z and LinuxONE will need to add Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 interface to the DS8000 to satisfy the needs of the AI Data centers. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CX...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Development team need to test the higher HBA drivers and Firmware levels to support TS4300 Tape library

Problem Statement: TS4300 Tape Library not detected from Windows 2019 OS end. Components Involved: Emulex LPe31000 HBA card and TS4300 Tape Library. Installed HBA card drivers version is : 14.0.376.10 Firmware : 12.8.351.7-11. As per the IBM Syste...
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it. With the "relabel_empty" feature cartridges will be relabeled when they are assigned the status of EMPTY again after being freed up. The write from begin of tape,...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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