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Add AIX support to Storage Defender

Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
24 days ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

Show Buffer-Credit configured per Switch-Port

Provide a column on the switch port page with the configured buffer credits. This would help to prove a virtualize configuration or to identify a possible congerstion source.
20 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
29 days ago in IBM TS7700 1 Needs more information

Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

Snapshot policy to check number of snapashots

Sometimes there is a problem when the policy try to create snapshot - like mmlssnapshot timeout - and this skip the creation of snapshots - and also deletion of the old snapshot by policy- this means that the older snapshot will not be delete by t...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Needs more information

Automatic Performance reports of Fiber channel IO

it would be great to have a way of automating performance reports of a ds8k through storage insights. for example during an LCP Push/ pull be able to have an automated report which gets created and can be sent to an email address. we pull these ma...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

Disallow to run a SGC recover when R1 devices are already in use (by another recover or by a practise H3)

In our configuration R1 devices for SafeGuardedCopy are the same as H3 devices for practice. When we flash I3 devices on H3 devices for practise and then we run a recover backup for SGC the task failed with a x0FAE error code.But one time the H3 d...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Needs more information

Add the Persisent option for the practice FC (H3-I3 role pair) in CSM session.

The MM-GM with practice session is missing the Persistent option for the H3-I3 FC role pair (I suppose the other session with practice are missing the option too). This is useful if H3 volumes are space efficient, the FC relation should be persist...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

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2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Needs more information

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