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allow FCM to more granularly control message output

We need the ability to suppress the message IWNRF015I when needed.The PDEBUG variable value currently has non effect on the setting of "show_dups" variable and this leads to hundreds of unwanted messages on the screen during the SEL-SOURCE and the...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Secondary control for Adminstraive schedule jobs

This is a basic request. When a administrator leaves the company or change of project, per process the respective admin ID should be deleted from Spectrum Protect ( remove admin ). However the "remove admin" command just process the deletion reque...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SVC GUI Storage pool Capacity Reporting

IBM SVC GUI capacity report of safeguarded storage pool used capacity is based on total - Free capacity. This doesn't align with CLI lsmdiskgrp accurately. Request is to have exact match of capacity numbers such as USED, REAL and Total capacity in...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Setting the Overview by Server on the Operations Center

Having on the Overview page of the Operations Center the possibility to filter the information by server.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

CSM support scheduled task for longer period

Scheduled task only support hourly, daily and weekly now, would like to extend the support to monthly and yearly.
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

DS8K Storage connection to CSM via HMC mode - static password is Audit exposure

Currently to add a DS8K using HMC connection in CSM, we use a separate ID (admin level) created for this which has static password. We cannot use direct connection. This is an audit risk where we cannot have static passwords. Can an alternate proc...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

BVIR Audit volumes should ignore volume copies 'in flight'

We utilize the BVIR 'COPY AUDIT' function to identify volumes that are missing copies in some or all of the clusters in a grid. As an example of this use we run a COPY AUDIT with the EXCLUDE parameter to specify a cluster that is being removed fro...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

E-mail notification when ticket is successfully created, and log successfully uploaded

SI allow to create, update ticket and upload logsUser should receive an e-mail notification when one of these actions is successful or fail
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Increase number of dependent filesets

Guardant Health is using Kubernetes to control their workflow. They will have thousands of jobs and they will need thausands of PVCs. The projection is that they will go over the 10,000 fileset limit in 2022. The target for 2022 would be at least ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Protecting Wide Cluster resources using Fusion UI

If we want to protect any cluster resources of any namespace, We have to create a recipe and assign it to specific application
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

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