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    Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

    Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Tunable options to reduce failover time of ESS when one of the IO servers fails

    In 1H 2020, Korea team has made significant growth in ESS business. However it is noteworthy that business of our competitors have grown together. This is the evidence that market for fie storage is growing. Therefore it is strategically important...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

    Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

    The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Add more Debug Tools in DS8xxx to implement Data At Rest

    When trying to implement Data At Rest encryption, we got several problems to establish communication with the key servers. On DS8xxx side (which is the client in the relation), messages for debugging are not really explicit. On Key Server side, no...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Object Lock: Limit retention to a maximum number of days and add an option to disable COMPLIANCE lock on a bucket

    Add configuration on bucket or container vault or both that limits the maximum number of days allowed when using object lock. Configuration can be made using service API or GUI as this is not something supported on s3api. Another option that might...
    8 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

    Avoiding full volume background copy after restoring of one FlashCopy relation in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy env.

    The environment we request this enhancement is in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy with cascading FC support. In this environment, The customer will have two incremental FC relationships from one source A as Step1 bellow. Actually they will tak...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    SIPro to trigger SGCs on FlashSystem when malware is detected

    To have a fast SGC triggered when malware is detected, we should enable SIPro to trigger such without Defender DRS. Now this can be done with webhooks- that requires no out-of-the-box solution and a lot of customization.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Improvement of mmnetverify for remote mounted filesystems

    mmnetverify seems to be created with the assumption that everyone is using adminMode=allToAll, and is using passwordless ssh for many of it's checks. This is problematic both to local cluster with adminMode=central (no passwordless ssh from client...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Query for bitmap increment status

    During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    TDP support for SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 8 for SLES on Power

    TDP for ERP 8.1.11 supports only SAP HANA 2.0 SPS7. Support for SPS8 needed, which is availible since Nov 2024.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Planned for future release

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