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Protocol replication needs the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing

Protocol replication has “all-or-nothing” failover/failback process. Cannot test DR for new exports. We need the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing With “AFM-based DR” (which the protocols cluster DR is based on), and indeed fo...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Cancel multiple client sessions

Having a run to a server with many many client sessions, how can many being canceled by one single command?
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Intellectual disk drive updates

If the system has multiple types of disks and a user tries to upgrade all of them, some disks may fail to update. This causes the whole upgrade process to stop and leave all the remaining disks (even upgradable) at an older version. In this case a...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Add path status in Overview Screen Page

In IBM Copy Service Manager It's possible add path status in Overview Screen Page?? We monitoring Overview page for potential issues of session, server connection, but we don't see path status, that is visible only in a specific screen
about 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Allow the customers to use SSO / SAML with their domain

As our company security request, it will be better that we can have the function that support SSO/SAML with our domain to login the IBM Insights.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Enable SNMP access

The V7000 support only SNMP Traps. It would be nice to monitor with SNMP MIB, so that a healthy state could also be determined.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TDMF Message for SOFT FENCE

System: TDMF for z/OS Actor: User needing change in a message. TDMF (Transparent Data Migration Facility) is a product that allows the customer to non-disruptively relocate or migrate data within the data center, in periods of full production and ...
about 9 years ago in TDMF z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Mirrored volume Sync column added in Volume view of GUI

Allow the sync value of volume copies to be displayed in the volume view of the Storwize GUI. This information is available from the CLI command (lsvdiskcopy). Requesting to add this visibility from the GUI.
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent upgrades for Spectrum Scale Protocol Nodes

Currently, upgrades to Spectrum Scale are disruptive, documented to be 20 minutes per node. The stated reason is that SMB versions cannot co-exist, however, it is likely that not all upgrades introduce a new version of SMB.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

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