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Logging and audit of svcinfo commands

My customer tested the remote support for their new FS9200 that they are deploying in their datacenter and they wanted to make sure that the commands executed by remote support when accessing the FS9200 via remotesupport proxy were being logged an...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Missing time stamp

It seems obvious to us that it would be useful to know when the scanning of a Qtree has ended. The only existing keys to date are NameStatusMessageScan_recordsIndexed_recordsPhaseTotal_phases The endpoint we are looking at is sd connmgr/v1/scan/QT...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

SPP should support running different code levels on the SPP server and vSnap servers during migration/upgrades

SPP customers running a single SPP server with many vSnap servers need to be able to upgrade the SPP code in the environment in a controlled/phased manner. This means that they need to upgrade the SPP server and vSnap servers at different times an...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

more control over hiding snapshot dirs / extend mmsnapdir

There seems to be no way to get rid of the .snapshots subdir in the root of indendepent snapshots. This is a problem when mirroring data using rsync. Because we do not want to rsync snapshots we need to exclude them. But for correct mirroring we a...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Alert when Storwize devices are seeing slow internode traffic

If the internode traffic is too high for an extended period of time, send out a warning. If it above a certain threshold, send out an error. I'm not sure what the warning/error thresholds should be ( I'll leave that to IBM ). In this situation rel...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

speed up backup stgpool for file pools with dataformat=nonblock

On a SP server, we have lots of data from a CM8 environment, e.g. very many small files. About half of it from ICC and the other half from d3. 99% of this data is stored in FILE pools with DATAFORMAT=NONBLOCK because otherwise SP would cause a sto...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

CSM Option to Send Alert When Session Returns to Normal Status

We would like the option to have CSM send an alert when sessions return to a Normal status after they have gone to a Warning or Critical status.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale GUI - Increase the size of the login banner field

Many sites are required to present a legal warning on systems when a connection is initiated. Currently the Spectrum Scale login banner field is restricted to ~44 characters which is not sufficiently large enough to hold our required legal warning...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Support tiering from cloud to directory container storage pools

Currently, SP only supports tiering data from a directory container storage pools to cloud container storage pools. Once your data has moved to the cloud, you won't be able to move it back. The only way to do this is by destroying (!) your data in...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Tape optimized inline copy on filelist backup for HSM managed filesystems

We have a IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) file system which is HSM managed using the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client. In addition we are using the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client to backup those data, driven by the mmbackup t...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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