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SVC-Allocated Core (CPU) per volume

Hi, Our customer need to have the following feature (available at competition): To monitor Core (CPU) usage by Volume and info on percentage used.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SVC GMCV single shot mode

Currently the Global Mirror with Change Volumes is designed to be a continuous replication technology.Customer have brought up the suggestion that the underlying implementation could actually also be used for Snapshot based backups that will be tr...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

DECOMMISSION NODE/VM with Enddate

Add date parameter to DECOMMISION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM command.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Proactive support service within Operations Center

Operations Center Proactive Support with Health monitor and Advisor.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Management IP issues in a Stretched SVC cluster

If the system is in a Enhanced Stretched Cluster or a HyperSwap configuration, an option to have all inbound and outboud Ethernet traffic (management, call home, etc) flow from Ethernet Port 2 should the control node be on site 2. This would allow...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SLA policy without schedule in SPP GUI

SPP GUI doesn't have any option to have a SLA policy without any schedule.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Users should not be able to view every other users' filespaces

Currently, any authorised user of TSM can view the list of filespaces owned by any other user (provided that user is running on the same platform) by giving the "fromnode" argument to 'query filespace' in dsmc, for instance:> q fi -fromnode="my...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs

GEICO is in the process of migrating from older Scale infrastructure to an ESS infrastructure. Non-disruptive migration is blocked when Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Run all binaries in the installation folder to prevent security software blocking

Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to a different folder than the installation folder while running. Binaries we have seen ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

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