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Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
about 2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Needs more information

Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
about 2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Planned for future release

Installation DSCLI via Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

In the past we used DSCLI on Windows. In this environment we got informations about the software itself and security vulnerabilities automatically via a software management tool. If there was a breach or new version we got automatically informed. ...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address assigned.

Currently, IP quorums for HyperSwap as well as Policy-Based HA configurations need to be connected to the systems' Ethernet port where the service IP address being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits from having a secure ...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

REST-API request for GET a list of defined LDAP Users/Groups and their roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query detailed permissions of authenticated users. Which LDAP Users/Groups are defined ...
about 2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

REST-API request for GET a list of permissions for roles/custom roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query which user/group has which role. All return formats should be in JSON and YAML fo...
about 2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

REST-API request for GET a list of defined LDAP Users/Groups and their roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query detailed permissions of authenticated users. Which LDAP Users/Groups are defined ...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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