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SI Data Collector Status Provides Misleading Information

The SI Data Collector Configuration page provides various pieces of status information, including the number of candidates and monitored nodes. It also as a column that reads "unreachable." I opened a support case (TS007958840) to find out why the...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

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

Summary Report

Need a dashboard style report showing key performance figures for management. Current reports are PDFs containing long lists of information. There is no equivalent of the ‘General Operations' report that is produced by Operations Center for Spectr...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SOBAR like recovery for Spectrum Archive

Large Spectrum Archive installation cannot afford backing up files twice so file replication on different tapes is being used.Spectrum Scale Metadata becomes critical as any corruption due to software or harware error may produce a long outage to ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

SVC to allow more than 4 remote partnerships

In current situation an SVC cluster can only have 3 Remote Copy partnerships. Proposed resolution: Enlarge the number of RC partnerships Business impact: RC connection between more than 4 SVCs
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Allow GDPS ksys in the IGNOREGOPS

Allow GDPS ksys in the IGNOREGOPS list since GDPS provides the KSYSOFF=YES setting.
almost 3 years ago in TDMF z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Storage Insights to display PPRCPATH Pairing Information from the DS8000

We already have Copy Data statistics that pull in a wide range of information with regard to copy pairs, etc. Would it be possible to include PPRC Paths and their pairings at the LCU level, just like we can retrieve from DSCLI and the GUI? This wo...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

TSSC level and patches available in 7700 MI

To simplify the retrieval and management of microcode levels and patches, provide the TSSC microcode and patch information in the Cluster Summary download file of the 7700 MI. This should be very similar to the 7700 microcode and VTD_EXEC level in...
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Make the dashboard more focused on showing information and enabling actions at a per VM and application level

The product needs to be a lot more VM and application centric from a management perspective. What end users would like is backup information per VM and application in the dashboard, a list of VMs and applications showing when each VM and applicati...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Option Needed to Disable Implicit WRITE_ACL Permission for Owner on NFSv4 ACLs

According to https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_5.1.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r10.doc/bl1adm_admglnv4.htm Spectrum Scale grants implicit WRITE_ACL permission to the owner of files and directories in conflict with the NFSv4 specifi...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release