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Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server

Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Volume unmapping with independency

This event occur on VMWARE environment and not on z/OS! On microcode Release 87.51.103.0 when a set of volumes has more than one host and an unmap process is done via GUI all volumes are unmapped as well for others different hosts. This process is...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Event status at MI should be INACTIVE, when CE fixed the cash disk DDM failure.

At the last step of Cash Disk DDM failure procedure, IBM CE contact customer to check MI console for ACTIVE event and make them INACTIVE. Since IBM CE repaired the incident, event in MI should be INACTIVE. So, customers feel that they are being ma...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

Fusion online backup for Z

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

Add DST flag to timestamp in Perfstat files

A small but helpful cleanup change: Could you please add the Daylight Savings Time (DST) Flag to the Timestamp in all 4 performance statistics filetypes (Nv, Nm, Nd, Nn)? End of October countries like Germany (TimeZone 360) have a negative clock c...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

SVC - Need to enable DNS support for LDAP server configuration

We use LDAP to manage authentication to our SVC arrays. The SVC however does not support using DNS names to define the LDAP server, we are forced to specify IP addresses for 2-3 LDAP servers. This is a problem as in our dynamic environment, the IP...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Ability to delete filespace tied in retention set.

If we set up f.e a retention rule to save a yearly backup for all VMs, we then can not delete any of the VMs filespaces completley. Only if we delete the retentionset and thus deleting all of the yearly backups.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Support for more host site WWPN per I/O Group for IBM San Volume Controller

The customer has exhausted the WWPN hot ports inside an IBM SVC I/O Group, which his 2048. We want to know if it would be feasible to increase this value or if this is something that is technically not feasible.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Ability to move a volume's iogrp if still replicated

At present if a volume is mapped to a replication relationship then the non disruptive volume move feature can't be used as the relationship must be removed prior to moving the caching iogrp for both the master and the auxillary volume. It would b...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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