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DS8000 Submitting a Test Call Home Case

This would be useful to make sure a call home case gets submitted to IBM Support. The test call home feature is good, but would like it to be more comprehensive. This shows that its able to make a connection and is able to create a case after let'...
18 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

add affected storage system / path for the message IWNR1963W

The message IWNR1963W is: One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed. Sometime there are micro network issue that makes the path have a punctual error. As we have several storage system in ou...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Implement upstream NooBaa Changes that support recent Amazon S3 server/client changes

Recent client side changes to the aws cli utility as well as the Amazon boto3 python libraries have broken functionality of using the s3 gateway. From Amazon: In AWS CLI v2.23.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integri...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
6 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

CES-S3 should support multiple groups per S3 account

Currently there's only support for a single group ID for each S3 account. This doesn't fit well with normal file system permissions where the same account might need access to several groups of different roles. F.ex. /gpfs/fs1/department might all...
about 1 month 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...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3

Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

To enable Almalinux OS support on IBM Defender.

The is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open source community-supported computing platform, and AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatibl...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

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