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Support for the new SCSI T10 standard

SVC needs to support the new T10 DIF standard so that currupted data is recognized
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Granular selection of user ROLE controls, or custom roles

We need the ability to build a role that allows an user to resume a replication session, but not alter the session(s). Additionally, we would like this role to be able to take flash copies. OR the ability to build a custom role where all functions...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Mimimum volume datarate for HyperSwap primay site switching consideration or Primary site enforcement for volume pairs

The RFE proposes to create a client input parameter acting as a threshold (expressed in MB) instructing the HyperSwap site optimization module to ignore write traffic below the threshold. Alternatively the RFE proposes to create a CLI command allo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Remote support should log into systems to collect logs

Problem description: Remote support should proactively log into systems to collect logs to prevent frequent back-and-forth requests for data which can extend a call days/weeks.Current workaround: Customer collects logs at support's request and upl...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

protection with rmvdiskaccess command

protection with rmvdiskaccess command
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

DS8000 DSCLI mkkpprc command output enhancement

The mkpprc command with the nocp option indicates successful completion for already existing MTIR pairs. Since the MTIR is a system defined PPRC relationship, that only exists on the source device, the successful completion of the mkpprc command f...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

SI Should Show Useful Information in Data Collection Problem Emails

When we get emails about Data Collection problems there is really no useful/actionable information in the email at all. For example: Dear Storage Insights user, IBM Storage Insights has detected a disruption of data collection for a storage system...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

RAS improvements - mmhealth nvme status information

In regard to the nvme status information it is desired to have mmhealth to monitor the "Optimal Link state" and "Optimal LBS Format" (RTC Issue 267159)Most important is an alert in the monitoring when the status is away from "optimal".
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

expel the right node although the node is high priority

one ethernet port in one of quorum nodes flapping leading the cluster manger to expel lots of other health nodes in several hours, till the gpfs can not provides service. IBM should add reasonable expel rules to expel the problem node As Alibaba k...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

fix mmdiag --stat -Y indistinguishable entries

mmdiag offers -Y for machine-readable output. Unfortunately parsing that output is difficult because there are multiple lines that have an identical identification string. So you really cannot deduce what value you are seeing. The only way to sure...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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