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Tx/Rx values at SVC GUI

Could you please develop to be Tx/Rx values visible at SVC GUI? It would be useful at a port investigation issue. There is a problem with swith SFP, FC cable or SFP of an SVC node. With this info we could raise a ticket much more perfectly. Thank ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

gpfs.snap option to add case number and upload to IBM

It would be nice to have an option in gpfs.snap that would take a case number and then upload the snap output once it has been created. Would remove some manual steps... think of how much collective time would be saved with this feature!! -Bryan
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

CSM does not show single failed PPRC path in overview console

CSM console is the main Monitoring tool for all z/OS storage related issues. Recently, we lost one of the PPRC paths but this error was not visible in the overview console. The seesion overview console showed everything as normal (no warning and n...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 Delivered

Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from a client to implement all IBM tooling along with Spectrum Protect (8.1.2) via LDAPS. We have successfully proved the current form of integration with StartTLS but the client in question is a bank and has concerns around ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Support for more that one OCP Cluster

With support for only one OCP cluster, It will be difficult for our customers to do upgrades on the same platform. If you have 10 different OpenShift workloads on a single OCP 4.8. cluster. How do you upgrade to some of those workloads to another ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Delivered

9848-AF8 / 8.3.1.1 limits migration speed ( number of threads )

After upgrading FS9x00 - 9848-AF8 to 8.3.1.1, the number of threads when migrating out of internal mdiskgrp has been limited to 4. That combination can be reached by 4x1, 2x2, 1x4 - the total number of threads cannot exceed 4 This is a limitation ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Capacity on demand enhancement

Today's design of TS7770 Capacity on demand with FC 5262 and 5263 is not flexible enough as it is not aligned with the hardware capacity. E.g. in a six-drawer configuration the cache capacity is 472 TB but only 400 TB can be enabled by above FCs. ...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 5 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Backup of an Individual VM in an SLA Policy

Customer requires the ability to backup an individual VM in an SLA.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

Allow IBMi to backup to Spectrum Protect (again)

IBMi used to be able to backup using a TSM client to a TSM/Spectrum Protect Server.With IBM Protectier TS7650 being removed, our IBM i core banking environment no longer has a disk-based BRMS VTL to backup to.We have IBM Spectrum Protect running a...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

Tape support for IBM Storage Defender Data Protect

Allow Defender Data Protect to use tapes as a target for backup storage. Many customers wants to use tape for long term retentions and in some cases are obligated to do tape for compliance reasons.
9 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Delivered

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