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Generalized quality of service (QoS) user processes

For my customer who has about 30 project groups and requires a guaranteed I/O QoS for different groups of users or processes, Spectrum Scale should have its QoS capability generalized in the following manner: 1.) Define multiple classes, not just ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Enhance the availability for Security related currency in the SW-Stack in Spectrum Archive

In the current available SW-Stack we must complain the currency in Spectrum Archive SW Delivery. (SA 1.3.3.1, SP BA/HSM-Client 8.1.15.0, Spectrum Scale 5.1.3.1). Because of many security related issues in these components we must implement the las...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Delivered

CSM alert notification needs more granularity to properly notify oncall pagers and email distribution lists.

Currently under Alert notifications, we have created recipients for various email support teams and emails to the pager vendor product we use. If for example, you have an "unexpected severe status' alert, and it contains multiple recipients, it bu...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

AIX v7.3 support for IBM Virtual Storage Center

We would like to request development team to commit to support the above connections by end of Jan 2022. #1; AIX v7.3 and VSC 5.4.x or later (Spectrum Control support OS)#2; AIX v7.3 and Copy Service Manager v6.3.x or later#3; AIX v7.3 and SVC v8....
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

CLI option to view TB managed by CSM

On CSM v6.3, on the overview page, it will show below details:Remote copy source volumes (not cascaded): 62 ( 411.9 GiB )FlashCopy source volumes: 78 ( 1.1 TiB )Volumes protected by Safeguarded Copy: 0 ( 0.0 KiB )Volumes used as targets: 141 ( 2.6...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Delivered

SP+ Syslog alerting

Please add an ability to have events sent via syslog messages to external receivers. There should be an ability to include select informational events for login/logout security auditing as well as backup and restore events.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

DS8888 GUI to Include IO Card Physical Location

In the Previous GUI for DS8888, under Configure IO Ports, we are able to see what is the physical location for a port, eg R1-B1-C1-T0 as well as the I0XXX number and WWPN for the port. However in the new DS8888 GUI, under "Settings > Network" i...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize GUI resizable fields

Since redesign of the GUI in 7.6 (could also be in 7.5 but we did skip that release) a number of fields cannot be resized anymore. This is very frustrating for our storage administrators as they have to pick items on random and see if this is the ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Replicated volume expansion without deleting relationship

We need the ability to expand volumes with a Metro Mirror remote copy without deleting the relationship between the volume and its copy. Deleting and re-creating this relationship every time there is the need to expand a volume poses a risk to the...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Allow more flexible retention polices

Currently the SLA Policies only allow retnetion period in days. The customer would like to set retention period in weeks, months, years or indefinitely.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

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