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    SIP CVE Tracking

    One singular location where we can track announced CVE's on the DS8000 product line, would help us track and report on exceptions to CVEs across all subsystems in our environment. This seems like a good addition to the new SIP Security Posture rep...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Integrate cascaded archive and cascaded replication configuration panelts into IBM DMS GUI

    I am referring to this feature called cascaded replication and cascaded archive. Link: https://docs.cohesity.com/7_2_2/Web/UserGuide/Content/Concepts/CascadedReplication.htm?Highlight=cascaded The feature is currently an Early Access Feature but o...
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Data Management Service (DMS) 0 Submitted

    Add new option for the tag value in content search policy: "1st Capturing Group"

    In content search policies, you can use a regular expression to match content, selecting True/False or "Value matching expression" to be used as the tag's value. For example: Regular Expression: \b[\w_-]+\d{5}[\w_-]+\bContent: /opt/applications/da...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Discover 3 Not under consideration

    Support for concurrent uCode update on DS8000 ECKD for 21CS VSEn customers

    Currently, based on very old experiences with IBM z/VSE and DS8000 uCode upgrades, on the Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates for example IBM DS8900F Microcode Customer ...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 6 Not under consideration

    PBHA/R: increase total vol capacity

    There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of the replicated volumes (hidden volumes - change volumes - don't count towards this figure). Limit is reached in this 3-sit...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Use RACF certificates for all services instead of file based keystores

    Since release 6.3.15 it is possible to use one certificate for all CSM services. One can use either RACF keyrings or file based keystores, however when one wants to set up active/standby configuration, one must use keystore. I would like to keep u...
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    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...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    When migrating from a internal storage pool using AFM-S3 or S3 Glacier MU mode, allow the data to remain compressed

    Data could be compressed on Scale and when migrated via AFM-S3 MU mode or glacier, it should remain compressed if the algorithm is supported on the other endpoint.
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    AFM - Address logging gap to Accelerate Incident Resolution

    The current logging implementation for AFM (Active File Management) is insufficient for effective troubleshooting, leading to extended MTTR and, in some cases, unresolvable support tickets. We need to enhance AFM's diagnostic output to provide the...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Improve performance when retrieving partial tapes by using RAO/oRAO on supported tape drives

    IBM Enterprise tape drives (TS1140/3592-E07 onwards) supports Recommended Access Order (RAO). LTO-9 drives supports Open Recommended Acces Order (oRAO). This feature allows a tape drive to advise an application on the optimum retrieval order based...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

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