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make environmental stats available in SVC nodes

For a while now, Storwize and FlashSystem controllers support environmental statistics like watts used and temperature, which can be queried by 'lsenclosurestats'. Funnily, no recent SVC generation supports this command, ie SV1/2/3 and SA2. Many c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Implement the possibility to balance host I/O throttling on cache partition level

When TS7700 runs into host I/O throttling, this throttling is equal across all CPx partitions today. Since work load on different CPx may have higher or lower priority in the business/application context, it is required to have the possibility to ...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Implement a way for TSM admins to report stgpool usage over a period of time, for example, a data point daily for the last year.

TSM administrators need to be able to predict when new hardware must be purchased, and a usage trend will facilitate that.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Need to improve the speed of deleting a large number of small files

when deleting a large number of small files, most of the deleted ones are reclaimed in the background asynchronous process of fullscandeletion, but the process of space reclamation is relatively slow
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

After TLS certificate expires, IBM Spectrum Protect Server automatically renews the previous certificate distributed to nodes.

IBM Spectrum Protect Server TLS certificate expires 10 years after the server instance is created. Immediately after the expiration, all client nodes are unable to connect to the server. One of my customers provides a backup service in their priva...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Multi session restore from container pool should result in load balanced sessions

Technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993961 documents how to tweak the SDNQRSESSSIZE parameter for multi session restores, however the sessions created are not load balanced. This can result in the restore sessions not being...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

VTS - Simplify RSYSLOG and TLS configuration

Currently to enable RSYSLOG with TLS is cumbersome and not the same as on other interfaces like TSSC. As documented RSyslog - IBM Documentation one has to add specific certificates with an alias to enable or disable TLS for the RSYSLOG connections...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

SSO login for CLI

For a while now, there's MFA SSO support for the Storage Virtualize GUI. However to comply with our internal security policy, we also need to enable this for CLI access to our storage systems. Please add CLI login support to the authentication met...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Flashcopy Mapping - right click restore

Problem Description I just spent 3 days with IBM support trying to figure out how to restore a flashcopy from a target volume to a source volume. Finally support found a 2013 storewize v7000 redbook that listed to 2 commands. (ie Creating a revers...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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