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    [Copy] The Tiny PC TSSC/IMC in the library and TS7700 should have a separate FRU for the HDD, instead of replacing the whole system.

    When this was initially considered many years ago, HDD failure was very uncommon, but now it's extremely common.
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Authentication improvements

    The rest api is currently not consistent with the eeadm cli. This makes it difficult to automate things that rely on information the cli can output but the rest api doesn't. A few examples: 1. tasks https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-ee/1...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

    To enable SSL to transitional for nodes automatically without human intervention

    We are often facing backup failure due to SSL connection failure which needs to be updated manually from SP servers As we have only client support, we are fully dependent on SP Server team, due to that process, backup is impacting we need a soluti...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    [Copy] Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

    Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Powering a node on remotely

    Sometimes we need to power off a node for testing purposes and we have no option to power the same node on after we are done with the testing..
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Allow manually to set up limits for Daemon pods on Openshift platform

    Currently when we perform hot-add on a OCP node, SpectrumScale operator detects that and set that node into "Spectrum scale update" state. That means that all pods will be evicted from that worker, because operator has set that node into cordone s...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    Scale needs to be NIST 800-53 compliant.

    After scanning our system, Stig report is generated and there is one case have been addressed from our side but is still not resolved. In additional details, the issue is being addressed.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Populate user friendly naming convention & protocol on notification - GUI enhancements

    Hello IBM Team, We came across the notification which shows the "Ethernet port failure" but in details sections the Event ID Text has "Fewer ethernet ports operational" but its not populating the right naming convention & right protocol type t...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    start all available NSDs after reboot or with "mmchdisk start -a"

    "mmchdisk FS start -a" fails if one or more NSDs of a file system is not available (e.g. did not spin up). This is very odd. Our expectation is, that all available NSDs are started, and only the unavailable devices stay down. Actually, all NSDs of...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Search option in TsmVmwareUI

    When dealing with large number of VMs, finding a VM for restore/mount operation in the Datacenter list is extremely difficult and equal to finding a needle in a haystack. Search option would improve this interface significantly.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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