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About Alarms

The client's filesystem space is 93% used gpfs sent an alarm pool-data_high_error through gui-snmp trip on October 20, which was notified to the client in time through the client's alarm platform, but the current administrator did not deal with it...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Tickets created with SI should have same info added to the ticket when created by phone home

When an SVC "phones home", the ticket generated includes the following information - Client would like this same information automatically generated when they create a ticket with SI. Today, only the serial number is passed. Client does leverages ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SPP 3.rd recovery

Customer wants a third site for recovery. They are planning for a 3rd site recovery site to start up the workload from backup. Today we can recover SPP catalog from vsnaps. And the vsnaps can store data as archive to OSSM/S3/SP (this will act as s...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated in the SPP Gui to cater for infrastructure changes where the SP server IP address has changedand to allow the possiblity to allow the SPP server to be repointed to the failover object agen...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Offer alerting creation based on variation of the metric

In the same way that this is offered today with "Storage System , capacity, total compression, changes ", any other attribute (from other cateogries and componenent) should allow to specifc a change % value as trigger of the alerting
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow migration of Local Page DS volumes

Active Local Page DS volumes are the only volumes that cannot be migrated by TDMF. However, when all active local pages on a volume are set into Drain mode (read only), there should no longer be I/O to the volume that TDMF cannot handle. TDMF coul...
about 2 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Consider SFP specification (LW, ELW, SW) port speed as attribute for alerting creation

SI allow to create alerting related to SFP spec like power or DB, these spec my differ depending of the type of SPF in use Alerting creation should allow to to specify the type of SFP when creating an alerting some spec are as well related to the ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

HDFS support for scanning

Allow Spectrum Discover to scan hdfs data lake environments to identify data candidates for our use cases (AI, governance, data heat).
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

IBM SPP vSnap availability in AWS EU (Stockholm) Region

IBM SPP vSnap is now available in AWS marketplace for deployment but it doesn't list AWS EU (Stockholm) Region yet.It is important to have vSnap in this region for adaption to SPP and not choosing other solution.Due to workload in AWS EU (Stockhol...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Confusing status message 'mmlspdisk'

My Client submits the following:After carrier release the status is even more confusing [DIARSS root@ems1-xcat ~]# mmlspdisk all --not-okpdisk: replacementPriority = 6.77 name = "e1d2s02" device = "//essio32.ib.rsshpc1/dev/sdpe(notEnabled/closed),...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration