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DS8000 Host Adapter - fcping support

Provide fcping capability on DS8K host adapters similar to what existed on 8Gb HAs. Below is a comment from IBM Development REF PMR 23506,082,000 regarding ECHO ELS handling in newer HAs. "It looks like it is a difference on how the ECHO ELS is ha...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8000 APIs for WUI user management

Request to provide REST APIs for DS8000 HMC (WUI) user management - e.g. lshmcuser, mkhmcuser, chhmcuser, rmhmcuser.
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

HyperSwap: IP connection on IP quorum disk makes redundant so to avoid Quorum disk offline

System: Storwize V5030Actor: HyperSwap -----------------------------Understood HyperSwap technology is based on chassis level redundancy. In the meantime IP quorum is based on IP connection between storage nodes and tie-braker IP quorum disk. Howe...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Battery reconditioning required. Give the customer an option of an automated process

Since SVC, V7000, V5000, and The FS900 all share some of the same code I'll Use the V5000 as the example. My customer asked why are they bothered with having to take action when they receive a notification that "Battery reconditioning is required"...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SI doesn't automatically grant permission to support for log collection

SI doesn't have a method of granting support permission to gather logs when a new storage system is added.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

Increase the command history buffer in dsmadmc to WAY more than 20.

The command history feature (up arrow) in the dsmadmc and dsmc command line interfaces has been limited to 20 previous commands for over 25 years. Assuming that this was some sort of memory limitation in the distant past, can you please increase t...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

V7000 Spare Capacity distributed among disks in array rather than dedicated hot spare.

I think that the V7000 would greatly benefit from having distributed spare capacity rather than dedicated hot spares. The XIV benefits greatly from this and being that it's IBM's product, I expect it would be easy to get out there from a legal per...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Snapshot compatibility with FS7200 / NVMe Disk

We were checking this document and realize that FS7200 is not in the list, this config is made based on FCM / NVme disk.This is an environment which includes Power server and FS7200 like a said before and the needs for the Spectrum Protect Snaphot...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered

SVC SCSI id assignement

Current way of SVC SCSI id handling in case of multiple I/O groups could cause problem with Clustered Hosts (like VMware) The problem is that an SVC with multiple IO Groups could present a LUN with different SCSI id to the members of an ESX cluste...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

enhanced charging to support compressed/uncompress volume

Today:- It is possible to measure data on different levels on the TSM Server- SELECT * FROM FILESPACES Can be used to see the allocated and used space on filesystems on the clients But does not give correct results on databases, as both CAPACITY a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

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