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Display both the main (DKC) microcode and the (SVP) microcode on Hitachi storage arrays

Currently, storage insights only displays the svp firmware levels, which is not the firmware level of the array itself. It would be best to display both levels of firmware as they are two separate levels that normally are not the same.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

TSM4VE - Easier include/exclude of harddisks for a VM and integration of that in graphical interfaces

Include/Exclude for VM harddisks is made within client option file only, hence the direct usage and visibility in any graphical interface is not given. The user cannot choose within the graphical interfaces which harddisks to include (i.e. during ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Additional information needed about mmbackup jobs

The mmbackup command uses the Scale policy engine to determine what needs to be backed up. It should be possible to get additional information about the backup from the policy engine, including the amount of data to be backed up. This kind of info...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Remove SP server startup dependency on availability of LDAP URL and implement recurring probing of LDAP access

Server does not restart when unable to inialize LDAP directory service. Moreover it seems that no recurring probing of LDAP access is currently factored into the SP server code, therefor no alerting will take place in case of loss/failed LDAP conn...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

CSM to Include Active/Normal PPRC Path Count for LSS's Under Topology Details View

It would be very helpful if the Topology Details table could list out the total PPRC path counts for each session/LSS. This can be useful in making sure that eg the CSV setup is as expected, that there aren't any failed paths affecting a particula...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Delivered

Fusion online backup for Z

Support for Fusion backup on Z.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Delivered

GUI backup and restore option of library configuration

The only option to save (and eventually restore) the library configuration database today is to use the TS4500 CLI. It is Java based and Java is not allowed in some client installations because of security concerns. Moreover, in a TS7700 environme...
about 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

CSM Improve DS8000 Paths Interface

I would like to propose several enhancements to how the CSM DS8000 Paths screen is displayed and managed. 1) The DS8000 Paths screen has a lot of unused space when drilled down into a storage device list of paths, on my monitors at least half of t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Automated Backup of TS7700 database

Provide a way to allow customers to backup/restore the database and metadata for each VTS cluster within the grid. This needs to be a process that can be on demand or automated. This may be a duplicate of RFE 79372 but not sure if it included all ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 2 Delivered

Hot spare node

Customers need more redundancy in case of a node failure, and since the SVC hardware is reasonable priced having 1 or 2 more nodes is an option.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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