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Flashcopy Manager

The Tiny PC TSSC/IMC in the library and TS7700 should have a separate FRU for the HDD, instead of replacing the whole system.

When this was initially considered many years ago, HDD failure was very uncommon, but now it's extremely common.
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Not under consideration

Provide Official lin_tape Driver Support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS

Current Behavior: Currently, the IBM Storage Protect (ISP) Server operates successfully and without issue on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and testing shows identical stability on the upcoming/current Ubuntu 26.04 LTS releases. However, official ISP support o...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library Not under consideration

Link-Redundant Cloud connections via Network Isolation ports

Customers use dual ethernet switch infrastructure and want to be resilient from adapter/SFP/cable/switch failure or their maintenance activites
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

teste

teste
2 months ago in Storage Fusion Not under consideration

Ability to Trigger Customized Client-Initiated Call Home via DSCLI or API

As a DS8000 user with numerous DS8000s in our environment, we do not currently have an automated method to trigger an IBM Health Check on one or more of our DS8000 systems. Due to security concerns, we do not currently have IBM Storage Insights im...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Implement mmlsmgr/mmlsmount reversion to the display of short hostnames after nodes with a different domain are removed from a GPFS cluster

When a node with a different DNS domain is added to a GPFS cluster (or a remote cluster mounting a filesystem from an NSD cluster), mmlsmgr and mmlsmount output shows hosts with the trailing domain (up to the point of similarity). This makes sense...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Support for SUSE K8s

would be useful to have more than OpenShift in the field
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Not under consideration

Add setup options for secure, encrypted and authenticated E-Mail notification for Tape Library TS4500

For security reasons we need the possibility to send authenticated and encrypted (TLS) alert emails with a predefined email address as sender. Unfortunately only authentification for emails is currently configurable.
4 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Not under consideration

Support for concurrent uCode update on DS8000 FCP-attached SCSI disks for 21CS VSEn customers

Currently, based on very old experiences with IBM z/VSE and DS8000 uCode upgrades, on the Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6585326 for example IBM DS8900F Microcode Customer Informatio...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Support for concurrent uCode update on DS8000 ECKD for 21CS VSEn customers

Currently, based on very old experiences with IBM z/VSE and DS8000 uCode upgrades, on the Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates for example IBM DS8900F Microcode Customer ...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

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