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GUI vs. waiters

GUI thread fork()s mmlsfs ... but when the cluster is hanging anyway .. it does not makes any sense , maybe GUI can be optimized to check cluster state/waiters ... As if a cluster hnags (has waiters) adding more monitoring hanging processes on top...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Additional HMC support connectivity options

Depending on security requirements, the customer is not allowed to connect DS888'0s HMC to the Internet.For this reason, I request the addition of a function that connects the system of the destination of the RSF and the HMC in the customer data c...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane.

Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane. This saves having to log onto each cluster GUI.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Automatic aux vdisk creation on remote copy relationship creation.

When you create Remote Copy relationships, you need to identify the source LUN / Size / Name, then create an IDENTICAL (to the last Kb in size) volume on the auxiliary site. Then you can create the relationship – master / aux. If there was a simpl...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Manager not compliant with IBM ITCS104 security rules

ESA Security board request to open this RFE in order that TSM password rules management should allow to configure the minimum ITCS104 rules.<br />Example : upper - lower case in pwd ,    minimum length=10 ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Node id change because of a shutdown

When a node in SVC is stopping unexpectedly, not regularly shut down, then the node gets a new node ID. Actually the node is automatically removed from the frame and then added again with a new id. This ruins the numbering system in the frame. Als...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Alert for Vdisk Mirroring out-of-sync

Italian Customer with large environment based on SVC in stretched cluster + GM over 450km is using mirrorwritepriority set to latency. The customer want to receive an SNMP alert when VdiskMirroring goes out-of-sync. Accordingly with Hursley Archit...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC node id changed

On the SVC GUI interface the node display name has been changed even after a UPS battery change. We need the GUI to keep the names on the list after any hardware operation. Would be great if it worked like the V7000 storage interface. It seems for...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

incremantal backup via NDMP

Since TSM's limitation of doing NDMP backup of filer as full+differential. So if its having feature of adding incremental as one option, so we don't need to waste space by having differential backup as its become so large at one point until u do f...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Increase RUNSTATSCHKINTERVAL time

I would like to suggest that you increase the time for RUNSTATSCHKINTERVAL. Today this option is at 10 minutes. I feel this option should be minimum at 90 minutes. Also document this option better, it's use, why it's needed even though DB2 does au...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration