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Display of Servers --> Maintenance tasks history improvement

Tasks which run into the next day are shown in the history as running and not finished. The history seems to only check the job in one day. It should check the process id for the finished or aborted status. Also it would be helpful to see the dura...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Allow the ability to stop a FlashCopy session (Storage Virtualize Family)

When managing FlashCopy sessions (not volume group based) from CSM, the only available commands for any given FC session are: Discover Start Flash Restore Terminate surprisingly, the ability of stopping a session is missing. You can terminate it, ...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Shorten the pending IO time to 5-30s during node expel

When node in ECE cluster was expelled from cluster, the IO pending time is long as 1-3 minutes. Some of applications failure due to long pending time,especial to OLTP or AI training jobs. Competitors which using traditional dual-controllers mode c...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Hard to find target host/cluster for VM restore when many hosts/clusters available

The restore of a VM to an alternate host becomes very problematic when many hosts are available. The customer I am working with has an environment that creates a list page count of over 800 in the restore UI of SPP. It won't be possible to find th...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow a global exclude for a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

FlashCopy Manager - enable higher values for SVC_COPY_RATE

Please increase possible values for parameter SVC_COPY_RATE to numbers higher than 100.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

SI to Include IBM DS8XXX Frames in an Inventory View

We would like to see a way in Storage Insights Pro to see an inventory list of all DS8 frames.Ideally I would like to see an Inventory table which lists out all frames for all the DS8 devices, but at a minimum we should have an Inventory tab withi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

No comma's in session and process numbers

For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

RFE 51: Automated vdisk mirroring functionality

One of the big advantages SVC offers is the ability to non-disruptively move vdisksbetween backend storage arrays - SVC pools. However this is currently a manually intensive process and requires the administrator to start and stop vdiskmirrors. Th...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Allow specific GDP fusion backup storage classwith Qos to avoid filling production filesystem

When doing fusion GDP backups to S3, fusion is doing a snapshot and then after a clone using mmxcp. This clone is then transferred to S3. When doing it on production systems, this clone is wasting space on production filesystem (i.e flash) as we n...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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