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DS8880 misses option to display possible and used virtual Capacity from WEB GUI

We use ESE volumes with small extents. In the WEB GUI we really miss a simple way to show the configured virtual Capacity as well as the max available virtual capacity. We suggest to add a bar beside the bar showing the physical capacity
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients

Allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients. It would allow automatic expiration of older versions. This would help implementing smooth S3 backup solutions for many modern "cloud" databases and similar tools, like Postgres, MongoDB, Hashico...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Don't send alerts for tape drives cleaning in the library that it automatically has cleaned.

We got this alerts. "Job 521576/QSYS/QTAPARB Device NDCMLB02 needs to be cleaned. Cause . . . . . : The tape drive read/write heads have become dirty and need to be cleaned. Recovery . . . : Clean drive NDCMLB02 by following recommended cleaning...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under 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
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Exchange large files (> 4GB) between Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive clusters

ZF has the requirement to exchange mainly large files (> 4GB) between Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive clusters in Germany and Poland. The capacities to be exported are up to 500 TB per day. The requirement is that the files that are exchang...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

Report Restore VM in SPP

Auditor person want to report restore same as menu function report vm backup history but in ibm spectrum protect plus not have
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under 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...
over 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 ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

FILE class mount retention

Enable MOUNTRET on FILE class volumes.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

LDAP enhancements related to RFC2307 mappings on Spectrum Scale/GPFS Windows

Currently, GPFS Windows has functional, performance, and HA limitations related to the LDAP AD lookup. The details are documented in IBM Case Number: TS005919437. https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002YlqdkAAB/kosmos-gpfs-windows-filesyst...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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