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    Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

    TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    logical volume retrieve in cache - tool

    as IBM lab service unit, we would assist the customer to takeover some tasks the client has to execute by his own side when HW refresh is performed on new ts7700, or when a backup infrastructure change is in place. We need to be able to recall by ...
    7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    Allow change Fusion HCI hostnames and rack units (rack-less option)

    Currently, Fusion HCI uses hostnames that appear to be fixed and cannot be modified. It would be beneficial to allow customers to change these hostnames to align with their own naming conventions.Additionally, the default hostnames include the rac...
    18 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    IP Quorum for PBHA Rescan Automatic

    IBM L3 told me this: When the application (IP Quorum) starts, it uses a configuration file that includes the management IPs of both systems but only the service IPs for the system where the app was created. If the app cannot contact the management...
    18 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    DS8K - HMC must support at least 4096-bit RSA keys

    Currently DS8K only issues 2048-bit RSA keys which is not sufficient anymore.
    3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

    In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Future consideration

    Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

    Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

    Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    mmdsh rest api command

    With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Integration with Storage Insights

    Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 13 Planned for future release

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