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Add more characters in MetroMirror name

Name of Mirror Relationship and Consistencygroup allows only 15 digits
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Automated Backup of TS7700 database

Provide a way to allow customers to backup/restore the database and metadata for each VTS cluster within the grid. This needs to be a process that can be on demand or automated. This may be a duplicate of RFE 79372 but not sure if it included all ...
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

Ability to supress IWNR4005I messages in CSM console.

In CSM 6.3.4 message IWNR4005I is logged to the console for every logon to the CSM webui. Please consider allowing the suppression of the message for particluar users or entirely.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

User Exit to be utilized for application consistency volume copies

In order to have application-consistent volume copies, the product should provide a user exit before and after a task for FlashCopy and/or Remote Copy in conjunction with IBM Spectrum Virtualize. Those user exits must provide a facility to handle ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server

Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Display both the main (DKC) microcode and the (SVP) microcode on Hitachi storage arrays

Currently, storage insights only displays the svp firmware levels, which is not the firmware level of the array itself. It would be best to display both levels of firmware as they are two separate levels that normally are not the same.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Volume unmapping with independency

This event occur on VMWARE environment and not on z/OS! On microcode Release 87.51.103.0 when a set of volumes has more than one host and an unmap process is done via GUI all volumes are unmapped as well for others different hosts. This process is...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Add DST flag to timestamp in Perfstat files

A small but helpful cleanup change: Could you please add the Daylight Savings Time (DST) Flag to the Timestamp in all 4 performance statistics filetypes (Nv, Nm, Nd, Nn)? End of October countries like Germany (TimeZone 360) have a negative clock c...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

CSM to Include Active/Normal PPRC Path Count for LSS's Under Topology Details View

It would be very helpful if the Topology Details table could list out the total PPRC path counts for each session/LSS. This can be useful in making sure that eg the CSV setup is as expected, that there aren't any failed paths affecting a particula...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Delivered

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