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The Menu ?DS8000 Paths? should include the Location column

If you add a storage connection at the “Storage System” menu you are able to give the new storage system a “description” at the Location column. This is very helpful to distinguish the storage systems. It would be very helpful to display this colu...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

More intelligent Caching

With the DS8000 IBM has several patents and very efficient caching algorithms. This interlectural property should be also available in the SVC
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Document update to be more precise in what is not supported

In the Spectrum Protect Server document, "Configuring clustered environments" section, there is a line below. > You can use other cluster products with IBM Spectrum Protect; however, documentation is not available and support is limited. https:...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

TSM-VE : better handling of VM template backup

may I suggest to not report a VM template backup as failed as it is done now when the VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS is specified in the datamover option file ? It dosen't make sens to raise Error when excpected behavior has occured. If I specify the opt...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Parallelization/enhancement of pool migrations of individual large files

When running migrations between different pools often it appears the tail latency of the ILM run is dictated by a small number of large files This seems to be due to the pool migration of any individual file being a single threaded activity that i...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Provide IBM Storage Insights collectors to run in zCX

The Itau bank is one of largest GDPS and DS8K user and the Storage Insights is a strategic product to monitor the DASD performance. We have the license and we are starting the implementation of ZCX. Nowadays the Storage Insights is using Windows S...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Subnet specification for RDMA based clusters

When connecting two Scale Clusters via RDMA, the "subnets" parameter is limiting. We at Vcinity specialize in building equipment that is used for connecting systems over the wan using the RDMA protocol. Whether it is InfiniBand or ROCE, we provide...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to configure start time for SPP "inventory" jobs

Customer requires functionality to configure start time for SPP inventory jobs.Default Application Server InventoryDefault Hypervisor Inventory
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore in TSM4VE

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore.API error message : The device '3' is referring to a nonexisting controller '31,000'.Case TS001855546
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

FlashSystem code and drive firmware upgrade

Join the code and firmware upgrade in one process with an option to complete the drive post of prior to the code upgrade is a good idea even where there are nothing to upgrade. Making the firmware is part of the code upgrade is something make the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release