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Show a User-Defined Instance name at the top of every CSM GUI page

Many clients have multiple CSM instances in their environment for Active and Standby servers plus multiple instances of servers for different workloads or different storage systems. It can get confusing when an admin needs to manage systems runnin...
3 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

zstd compression & dictionary support

If zstd support is added to the product it would be very interesting to allow for a few dictionaries to be used to improve (de)compression speed and compression ratio. This is ideal in situations where ILM policies can be written to target either ...
11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add GM Master Location to Global Mirror Info tab

With newer CSM sessions including multiple GM legs simultaneously, it would be very helpful to show the Location of the GM master in the display. This would help identify and differentiate the GM masters and lead to less confusion.
11 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Adding options to loading DSCLI(DS Command Line Interface)

Loading the DSCLI code from Windows/IBM i requires Java 8 or newer plus using the ftp protocol. When the company has removed the use of Oracle Java and replace with another version of Java for the company to use, Second, company has block the use ...
14 days ago in IBM DS8000 3 Future consideration

Enable multi protocol CES SMB / NFS rolling upgrades when CTDB upgrade is within a minor version.

When a multi protocol SMB and NFS CES cluster is upgraded, a short full stop of all CES protocols is required due to CTDB not allowing mixed major or minor versions. This can often cause issues with NFS mounts, if it is not possible to unmount the...
17 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Rolling upgrades of space management client.

When upgrading the space management client, event if there are multiple HSM nodes, it is required to disable HSM globally while space management and backup-archive clients and API are removed and reinstalled on all nodes. For clusters with multipl...
17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
21 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
24 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Storage Agent write to cloud container

Would be very useful to allow a storage agent to write directly to an on-prem or off-site cloud bucket. In larger environment this would help spread the load and improve backup performance. Then allow the Storage agent to read from on-prem S3 and ...
25 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Storage scale performance statistics for SMB shares

EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
26 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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