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Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Missing informational event for rear door open status

While rear door open, inventory option for service magazine scan is not available. From customer point library functionality is limited, an informational event will help and provide correct hint. Within REST Get frame, we cover rear door status. A...
8 months ago in Tape - Ultra Density 1 Future consideration

vSnap – migrate data from one vSnap to another vSnap

vSnaps of SPP are created but in the lifecycle the amount of data will increase. When a new vSnap is needed to increase capacity at the moment only new VMs will be backed up to this vSnap. To migrate data of vSnaps you need to create a new policy:...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Automatic Safegurded volumes to s3 or COS

With safeguarded copy, we have a fantastic solution to provide an immutable copy of a volume. Rapid recovery is effective if the volume resides on the storage array, however, with ransoware taking 200+ days to detect, it is less likely this volume...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

GUI should be quick to load overview pages, and defer the output of slow commands

F.ex. on the GUI "pools" page, we're experiencing several minute loading time on large systems. It should not be acceptable that it takes this long to load any of the pages, particularly not the initial overview pages. Rather the GUI should only s...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable TS7700 for Open Systems bei Adding the S3 Protocol

The TS700 has everything enterprise customers need. It has backend tape, it is a grid, it has all replication capabilities and so on. It could be the perfect system for multipetabyte data from open systems, e.g. tiering from data to tape out of co...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Enhanced CSM Notification with priority and persistence functionality

Adding the ability to make an alert persistent by selection would allow for some level of prioritization for critical type alerts versus non critical or informational type alerts. Currently the alerts are one shot. The alerts are not redriven at a...
8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Operation Center must have the capability to fully administrate and configure a Spectrum Protect Server

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center has developed into a very useful tool. Due to its clear structure and well thought-out functions, it is becoming increasingly popular, especially with new Spectrum Protect customers. To complete the picture o...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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