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Add callback for hard quota limit reached.

It would be useful to have a callback option for when hard quota limits where reached. While softQuotaExceeded and usageUnderSoftQuota are very useful, we would like to have an option to register a call back to be notified if a USR, GRP, or FILESE...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

More detailed user rights on SVCs

We need more detailed user rights for the users on the SVCs and V7000 Systems. We will begin to use the FCM (Tivoli Flash Copy Manager) for many different applications/systems. But now must the FCM have a SVC user with admin (that means, complete ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Authentication when using SMTP to send email

DS8000 uses SMTP to send emails for Monitoring and notifications. Actually there is no possibility to send emails with authentication (SMTP user and password). Security is getting more and more important. Our SMTP server does not allow unauthentic...
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Improve Visibility of TS7700 DDM Status, proactively report the status of DDM failures, availabliuty of spares and rebuilds.

Provide the ability for customers to inquire on DDM status within a TS7700 complex through the TS7700 GUI. In specific the ability to see the status of all drives, how many spares are within a RAID group and in particular the status of any RAID re...
almost 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Delivered

Non disruptive volume migration between Storwize devices

I would like to migrate hosts between members of the Storwize family without needing an outage on each host. The current methods for this are either through image mode migration or replication. Both of these methods require an outage on the host t...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

License Data via RestAPI

Scale will soon only be license via TB and not via Sockets. This mean we need to update the way how to keep control of our license status and by that we also want to move away from Clients / Agent based License tools to more web based license tool...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Improve DS8000 Host Adapter architecture to provide greater performance over larger fiber distance (RTT 50ms)

It has been found that over a fiber distance of 50ms RTT, the 32G Host Adapter provides a maximum throughput of 500 MB/s if 1 PPRC port is utilized on the HA. The PPRC port was connected to a 32G port on the Director which in turn had a 128G tunne...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Rename TPC-R sessions

We would like a way to rename TPC-R sessions in case they have not been named according to our convention. We understand that the ability to rename sessions was deliberately kept out, but it's a feature we could use in emergencies.
about 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Proxy Support for PCI compliance

Client uses Scale as object storage for IBM FileNet P8 to store auto insurance claim objects. Project is to archive objects using TCT and iCOS
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

DS8000 - Copy Services support for LUN sizes greater than 2 TB.

Currently, DS8000 Copy Services are not supported for LUN sizes that are greater than 2 TB. This limit is restrictive. In today's environment of ever increasing datasets it is time that Copy Services support LUN sizes greater than 2 TB. I would re...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

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