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Backport lsportstats to 8.3.1.x code stream

In the SVC 8.4 code SFP statistics have been made visible via the CLI lsportstats command. We would like to see this backported to the SVC 8.3.1.x code stream which is the current advised code stream by IBM.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Flash/SSDs Wear & Endurance GUI Monitoring

Urgently requested for Spectrum Storage Insight and Spectrum Virtualize GUI feature enhancement, to include tracking and monitoring of the Flash/SSDs devices on their wear and endurance. Competitors already having such features on their GUI dashbo...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

customer needs to be able to manage Spectrum Protect volumes not in defined within a storage pool.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to manage volumes not part of a storage pool. Specifically:- volumes containing exported data.- volumes containing backupsets.- DB backup/DBSnapshot media.- volumes correlated t...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

System managed throttles

Volumes throttling is managed at a canister/node level such that a throttle for a volume or server is the sum of what both canisters can deliver. If a canister were to fail the throttle can only deliver 50% of the original value. The throttle shou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Replication hung sessions are not getting cancelled on source and target TSM automatically after network disruptions

Replication sessions are getting hung due to network disruption and those sessions are not getting cancelled when the network issue is resolved. It took almost 4 hours for those sessions to get cancelled by TSM server which delayed DR replication ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

youtube tv contact number customer services +1(833) 756-4415

YouTube TV is a popular streaming service that allows users to watch live TV and on-demand content. While the platform is known for its seamless user experience, there may be instances where you need to reach out to their customer support team for...
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

More and more applications are running on Ubuntu and we see a larger increase of request to add tape support for multiple applications such IBM Storage Protect, Storage Scale and other running on Ubuntu. But to combine does applications with a tap...
10 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Not under consideration

EXCLUDE.DIR Command for archive operations

My client is trying to archive and doesn't want to archive an entire directory (including subdirectories) In backup operations, there is a command that is exclude.dir through which that directory is not included in the copy. We wanted to request t...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enhance information provided in case of errors flushing file data from pagepool to persistent storage

In case of failures in that area, file data may be corrupted. Providing the information which files are affected omits the effort of manually identifying them by expensive scans of the file system.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Change default to Power On VM for clone and production restores

Restore functionality - Power on VM - Production & clone restore powers on Shouldn't be default to power on as Power On VM was not ticked. Default should be leave powered off unless that option is ticked
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration