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    Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

    Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a Fla...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Allow Replication Partnership via secondary management interface

    We run a MS and need to onboard customers, sometimes, via replication.Our primary mgmt interface is used for internal replication and is completely out of bound from customer networks. Allowing the establishment of replication partnerships over th...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Unify the naming of settings for LDAP configuration

    Different IBM Storage product (TS7700/TS4500/TSSC/…) are using LDAP but they are naming the different settings within the configuration different. My suggestion is to have this standardize across the various products.
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    We would like to have a way to export/import LDAP settings cross different IBM Storage systms.

    Customer approached me asking why TS4500/TSSC/TS7700/DS8000 all are using separate ways to configure LDAP. They are requesting a way to configure one system and then copy these settings to the others. IBM in Tucson develop all, so this should be p...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    SI "New Experience": add option to export graphs on storage system overview dashboard

    customer would like to export a daily graph of the top 10 vols data rate, of the last 24h
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Support replication of Retention Set information as well as the data

    At present, retention rules and retention sets that are defined on the source replication server are not replicated to the target server. Only the data in the retention sets is replicated. This is a problem, in that should the source server be los...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

    Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

    A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Performance data exported from SI should be in customer timezone

    Performance data exported from SI are always provided in CST timezone, not in customer timezone. this is a concert for the user
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

    Provide a xattr namespace for xattrs that should disappear once file changes

    It would be useful to be able to set xattrs on files that get invalidated once the file changes. F.ex. we could set a user.valid.backup attribute to indicate that the file has been backed up, and a user.valid.checksum to store a checksum of the fi...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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