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SI/SC don't show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices

Today, neither SI nor SC show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices, only the physical WWPN. Since the direction is to use NPIV only for host attachment, this prevents important information related to host connectivity being visible.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Reporting capacity in a clustered environment is challenge.

Today we have an option to select several hosts and click merge host but this is a timing consuming, manual process in a large shop. We need a better option to recognize hosts that are in a clustered relationship. Looking at hosts that can see the...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

enhance command line output

The text screen output from commands entered in dsmadmc should be enhanced. Many columns are too small and cause wrapping already for relatively short common values, making it hard to read. On the other hand, much space is wasted by separating col...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for HCL Domino Server 14

HCL Domino Server 14 has been available for some time now. The Storage Protect Agent for Mail/Domino does not yet support this version. Since we and various other customers are due to update their HCL Domino servers to version 14, I would like to ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size on TSM Operation Report. on page nameData Protection CLIENT BACKUPS WITH THE MOST DATA Over the past 24 hSize0.0 B
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Volume performance & capacity metrics in native UI.

These are now considered basic features in competitive products. Over the last couple years it has become a concern with clients as to why we still don't have these: ----performance----1. Real-time volume performance statistics in native UI.2. Rea...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Balance workload over ISLs based on latency, not throughput

In ESC when there is congestion on the ISLs in one fabric, SVC should be able to detect the increasing latency on the operations (mainly writes), and then send them through the healthy fabric. Current behavior is to balance the traffic between the...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Option to always retain the last version

We need an option for the retention perion in IBM Spectrum Control Plus, so that we always have an backup.option: always retain the last version
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Disk and Replication Reporting in Dashboard and Reports

Disk Reporting Want to see capacity used, capacity free, capacity growth % in the last 24 hours, 48 hours, 1 week, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 1 year, 3 years e.t.cInfo should be available on the Dashboard, in ackup Storage and in reports Nothing o...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.

Since I upgraded to ISP Version 8.1.7 I get the following errors: 15:01:47 ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.15:01:47 ANR2837E The creation of the IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT pol...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration