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    Show zHyperlink performance details in DS8K GUI

    Would be helpful in monitoring DS8K performance or in case of incident handling.
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

    Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
    almost 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 3 Under review

    Add Webinterface to Debian based Linux.

    A customer have based most of their production on Debian based Linux distros (Debian and Ubuntu) with no GUI in the server install. In the BA client DEB package the WebClient module is missing, the RPM package TIVsm-WEBGUI.x86_64.rpm
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    SCSI Unmap support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado V5/6

    Our German customer is using a lot of Huawei Arrays with SVC and need support for UNMAP command for external Huawei OceanStor Dorado storage.It is a very big and valuable customer
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Include environmental informations (humidity/temperature) into REST-API GET Drives and GET Library output

    In order to ensure the operation of a TS4500 according to the defined environmental specifications, it must be possible to query these values directly without first collecting and evaluating drive logs and converting specific pages / hex codes to ...
    12 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

    Spectrum Protect Plus Direct Offload to Spectrum Protect

    Enable the direct offload to Spectrum Protect without the requirement to have a copy of the data offloaded in the vSnap.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Make snapshotting independent from the GUI

    We had now several times that on some volumes the snapshotting stopped.Without an alert.Support mentioned us that this is due to gpfsgui failure, and indeed restarting gpfsgui resumes the snapshot shedules. Honestly, I think that is bad software d...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Create a hidden command to allow a change for the number of concurrent SSH connections to SVC/FlashSystem

    The current limits of SVC/FlashSystem software to the admin connection limit the ability to run ansible playbooks and/or ssh automations during cluster migrations and can limit the ability to automate failovers of a large number of systems during ...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Automate scan and fix of "unavailable" containers for Spectrum Protect servers

    Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot ----------------------...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

    TS7700 - Aligned cryptographic support for TLS

    Regardless of the interface I'm using on TS7700 or TSSC, the TLS support must be the same on all interfaces like HTTPS and RYSLOG. All of them must be kept in synch and up to date (which is nowadays TLS1.3). Currently there is a mixture of possibl...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

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