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    DS8K - Copy Services - Mirroring Path GUI improvement

    Currently in the Copy Services menu the 'mirroring path' reports the current secondary site with a wrong status. As visible in the attached screen print (visible here: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DS80-I-270), only the current prim...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Is a defect

    Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

    Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Is a defect

    a software reset of the library should not invalidate the status of the tapes in the IOstation

    While after a powercycle of the library or opening the backdoor and removing and reinserting the IOstation, it is correct to rescan the IO station and consider all tapes to be imported, this should not be the case, when the library is instructed t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 4 Is a defect

    Disable Host Degraded for Direct-Attached Hosts

    This client has multiple distribution centers with small FS5x00s that are directly attached to a few ESX servers. The site is too small to justify SAN switches, and direct-attach is supported with NPIV enabled on 8.6+ code. In our configuration, e...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Is a defect

    Support for restoring concurrent vg

    There are some insignificant errors during OS restore with concurrent vg via NIM Resource Boot. “0516-1305 chvg: This command is not allowed while volume group sapbinvg is concurrent capable”“0516-1300 chpv: -h option is not allowed for hdisk3 bec...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Is a defect

    Implement certificate validation

    Currently certificates are not validated. If a corrupted/defect certificate is uploaded, the library just accept it, and the gui will be broken/not accessible any more. The only way to fix this is to directly access the gui via the panel on your (...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Is a defect

    Stop automatically disassociation from SLA Policy

    If for example one has DNS issue (it happens) and the SPP appliance fail to resolve, lets say a specific fileshare that is associated with a SLA.Then the SPP appliance desides that this fileshare is not longer there and removes it from the SLA..Th...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    Include the automatic Refresh States after an event "Hardware connection.... is now accessible (IWNH1038I)

    After a hardware error in one of the device server of the Storage, CSM reported a communication errors and changed the replication sessions from Normal to Severe. However, for the Hardware Storage side, there was no replication impact, as the othe...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

    Provides a way to change the instance name, which is visible on the new Carbon-based UI.

    An instance name is assigned when it is created and deployed. While it was not visible on the classic UI, it is clearly visible on the new Carbon-based UI which would surprises most customers; most customers would not remember they had chosen the ...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Is a defect

    IBM_INSTALL_fs_usage to made permanent to avoid Node issues in iBM 9500

    FA utility was designed to report on the usage of /data filesystem so that you would be able to monitor for the situation you encountered on case TS017213594 related to defect SVAPAR-98497. But we noticed this not built-in and its custom utility w...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

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