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Add HMC's IP address when creating certificate signing request on DS8K GUI

Currently the certificate signing request created via the DS8K's GUI only allow to have the HMC's DNS in it. If we could add the HMC's IP then both the connection via the DNS and the IP would be secure after the certificate is imported.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Add the capability to auto-expel mechanism, to specify a node class of nodes to exclude from the auto-expel

We would like to possibly use automatic deadlock amelioration, but we need to ensure certain nodes are not expelled. We do not want to auto expel interactive/login nodes from the compute cluster. We already have a Nodeclass that contains these nod...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Allow RDMA device recognition possible at mmfsd run time

Sometimes, when mmfsd starts up, not all RDMA devices are available (mostly due to temporarily down links). When such a link comes up later, mmfsd would not detect that and consequently ignore the port for the current run. Only when recycled, mmfs...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Implement a way for TSM admins to report stgpool usage over a period of time, for example, a data point daily for the last year.

TSM administrators need to be able to predict when new hardware must be purchased, and a usage trend will facilitate that.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Need to improve the speed of deleting a large number of small files

when deleting a large number of small files, most of the deleted ones are reclaimed in the background asynchronous process of fullscandeletion, but the process of space reclamation is relatively slow
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

LCP : Dynamic Management (increase and decrease) of Safeguarded Capacity

This idea would benefit all IBM z customers who are using, or who are considering implementing Logical Corruption Protection (aka z Cyber Vault) of data hosted on DS8000 storage subsystems. It would be of particular value to large installations wh...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Protect S3 object client via storage rule for copying data

We are using SPP and want that the VMs are directly restorable in a DR case. Currently we are using on the ISP server a directory container and protect it with "protect stgp" via copycontainer and stgrule (copy data -> offsite tape) to be prepa...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

cert_distribute.sh should allow customers to input path to dsmcert.kdb file

In the current cert_distribute.sh implementations as level 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 it is not possible to specify the path to the dsmcert.kdb file. The cert_distribute.sh script has a logic searching for the dsmcert.kdb file (function getWindowsCertKDBPa...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

Add aborted command/transfer metrics to SI

Spec V systems don't incorporate response time metrics into the performance stats for IOs that were aborted. The hosts would have actually been impacted by these IOs because IOs are typically aborted once they have hit some kind of timeout value. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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