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OC Send reports monthly

Today OC can create and send reports daily or weekly, we would like to create and send report monthly also. We have seen the need at several customers to send monthly reports.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Deleted VM expiration by TSM for VE

The classical implementation of TSM for VE relies on one or multiple Datamover node processing the backups (let's say at least one). A Datamover node is usually not the "master" node, i.e. the datamover node is a proxy node of the main "container"...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 to the IBM DS8000

The future of DS8000 for IBM Z and LinuxONE will need to add Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 interface to the DS8000 to satisfy the needs of the AI Data centers. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CX...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

expose pagepool statistics

There seems to be no supported way, and in fact no way at all that I can find, to determine how effective the pagepool cache is. The official ways to determine an optimum pagepool size are 1) "try it and find out", and 2) "pay one of our consultan...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

User set replication bandwidth allocation per IO group

Today SVC allocate a equal share of the partnership bandwidth to all IOGRP in a cluster.This RFE is to allow a user to set a different share (percent) of the overall bandwidth to different IOGRP
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Improve effectiveness of node replication process

The effectiveness of the node replication process needs to be improved, when data is located on FILEDEV device class based storage - in order to be better able to utilize the maximum defined number of sessions when possible.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block. A data transfer being done by one customer does work fast but the other user can't even ls specifics directories.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

CES event callback support

There are no events for CES that can be used with `mmaddcallback`. If I run `mmhealth node eventlog`, I see lots of events, such as nfs_active, nfs_in_grace, handle_network_problem_info, nodestatechange_info, ces_network_ips_down, etc. It would be...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

DS8910F the names of the download files should be customized. As a customer, for example, we would like to have our location

DS8910F .the names of the download files should be customized. As a customer, for example, we would like to have our location designation included in the file name.This is important for regulatory reasons.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Archive Automatic Recovery Function

FUJIFILM dternity development and customer support team spends much time checking and recovering when a warning is issued from tape drive. They create Service Request every time for those warnings, so automation recovery function can save time for...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

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