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Launch CLI from GUI

I have received multiple requests from my customers to add the ability to launch the FlashSystem CLI from the GUI like other IBM products. Please consider adding this simple change.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

DSMCAD should write a PID File

DSMCAD is missing an option to write a PID file. When the daemon is started it forks into background and the started process vanishes. You can only grep the process list to get the PID of the running process. Tools like systemd need this informati...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

MDISK removal advanced features

It would be great to be able to tune rmmdisk performance, I mean, selecting all mdisks to remove from a pool and ensure a few things: 1.- Do no write extends on mdisks that have been also selected for removal, it has no sense to put workload in md...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Multiple transfer streams between pools for data from a single node

We use a TSM system where the nodes/clients push data first to disk, then the TSM server migrate the data from disk to tape.We have several use cases where nodes periodically push data faster than the ~350MB/s that our tape drives (TS1150) can han...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Query files content of a container

Be able do list the files stored in directory/cloud container.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Snapshots on ChildPool

today you can only create snapshot-policy which makes the snapshots on the same pool the volume is already on. and in our scenario we are using Child-Pool for snapshots to prevent risks of cyber attacks when snapshots are filling the primery pool ...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Error handling for failed node replication - ANR1893E and ANR3824W

Since ISP 8.1.14 we always see this error messages in the log - and monitoring system - for node replication, because some files are skipped. The reason for the skipped files is, that database log backups always occur during the replication. This ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration