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Prioritising tape replication by catagory/dataclass

Currently data replication is performed on a fifo algorithm so as soon as a tape is available and there is a spare replication thread the tape will start to replicate. We have a situation where we have batch jobs that use a tape category for large...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Report visualizer inside Operations Center

The only way to visualize a report output is to send the report by email using the "Send" option. This is not practical when creating/modifying a report and you need to see the result quickly in order to make changes/corrections to the SQL. It wou...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure alert summary email frequency

IBM Spectrum Protect offers the ability to enable sending an alert summary email up to three admin ids. The option (set alertsummarytoadmins) is not configurable. If you specify an adminid a summary email will be send every hour. Its not possible ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow Target Server to be specified on Replicate Node

Allow the the target replication server to be specified on the replicate node command. In addition, document the DOMAIN option on replicate node in online and admin quide.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SI to collect support data from SAN switches

In a similar way that SpecV support data can be collected using SI SAN switch support data should be possible for Brocade (supportsave) and CISCO (show logging onboard, show tech-support details , show tech-support fcip) SAN switches
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Limit NFS Exports to a CES Group

Following limitation for NFS exports is in place (see A8.9 in Q&A section Spectrum Scale 5.1.2): If a file system that was previously exported successfully by NFS on a CES node becomes unavailable, the NFS daemon exits and the CES node becomes...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add GM capability between sites 1&2 and 3&4 to 4 site replication enhanced solution

Currently the 4 site replication enhanced solution allows a client to switch from MM to GC between sites 1&2 or between sites 3&4. Typically this functionality would be used if the MM replication was causing a significant temporary product...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 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

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