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IBM CSM to Stop Keeping Trying to Authenticate a Logged in User if Authentication Fails Once

CSM appears to have a mechanism where periodically it will re-authenticate the logged in users. This becomes a problem if the user's credentials have changed since the last time they logged into CSM, CSM will keep trying to re-authenticate the ses...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

See current system time in Gui when NTP is set.

Would like to be able to see the current system time in Gui on the NTP Tab, even if we have the possibility to use svqueryclock in Cli. Will make PD easier when comparing the time in tasks and events.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Create new Satellite clusters in Fusion HCI from IBM Cloud console

Enable creation of NEW IBM Cloud Satellite location in customers IBM Fusion HCI environment from the IBM Cloud Console. This could be enabled by having a agent on Fusion HCI the customer connect to IBM Cloud Satellite console. The agent is allowed...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Create Fusion HCI virtual machines from the Cloud Satellite

Today you must first access Fusion HCI to create host for IBM Cloud Satellite, then go to IBM Cloud and create location and files/scripts, then return to Fusion to load the files to attach them to IBM Cloud Satellite and finally return to IBM Clou...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

SVC HyperSwap and FlashCopy restrictions

In theory HyperSwap seems more appealing than an SVC stretched cluster and have some advantages regarding cross-site traffic and in case of an site failure. But if you also plan to use the FlashCopy technology, there are some restrictions I have b...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting using VM Tagging

Customer would like to expand the SPP reporting by using VMware Tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DS8K TCT can support a proxy server

[Background] We were planning on using TCT to store data in IBM cloud. Because the customer hopes to have the encrypted data stored externally and used in a contingency.However, the customer's security policy requires the use of a proxy server for...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

REST API - Quotas for Users and Groups

Create a REST API to show User and Group quotas. Currently, the only quotas are Filesystems and Filesets - If users have a homedir set to a fileset you can get their quota, however if user or group quotas are set they cannot be retrieved.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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