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    Install ICS through Customer-Code-Load

    This is an enhancement request of Customer-Code-Load of DS8000 R9.3 and later. My understanding is that currently there is no way to choose an ICS through Customer-Code-Load GUI. (If there is a higher level of bundle, some ICSs are selected aut...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Alternative Archive Destination with Oracle

    If, for any reason, the DB or Backup has had a problem und the archive destination is filled for 100% the DB get's in stuck.DB Administrator will choose an alternative archive destination.After Backup works again, it only backup the archive logs f...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Allow customer to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level

    Allow customers to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level (admin, operator, etc) … The customer would like to adminstir the groups on th eDS8k exactly how it works in the Storage Manager GUI for the z/OS.
    11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    There is a need for the Call Home functionality to be managed from Storage Insights.

    Customers are reporting a need (due to security teams) for Call Home requests to be fully handled by Storage Insight, not by FlashSystem arrays
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

    Volume groups should not be allowed to be deleted if volumes containing snapshots are associated with them

    Summary: Volume groups should not be allowed to be deleted if volumes containing snapshots are associated with them. Simple check.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

    Support for "directory swapping" (RENAME_EXCHANGE) on Linux

    I propose adding support for the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag for directory renames in Storage Scale, to enable atomic directory swaps. Linux around kernel v3.15 added the renameat2 syscall which supports the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag to atomically swap two di...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhanced RBAC with command specific granularity

    Implement enhanced RBAC policy configuration based on a per command configuration policy. We want to specify per defined adminitrator which actions/commands can be executed. Command approval as implemented in the latest versions is to limited
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

    Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add support to "cluster" object in RESTful API

    Add support for "cluster" objects in RESTful API, to be used for storage provisioning automation purposes.
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Add roll-up snapshot/SGC Schedule

    Allow the user to have an aggressive snapshot interval that rolls up to a less aggressive, longer retention snaps.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

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