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zHyperlink health status needs to be monitored and reported by Storage Insights

zHyperlink ports are not monitored or reported by Insights. The main advantage of Insights is the ability to see the status of all our boxes from one screen. Except that in this case, we still need to go back to all individual DS8K GUI's to double...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

mmdf needs an option to not reach out to all remote clients

On our very large environment, mmdf will take hours to run. This is apparently because the ESS cluster will reach out to our thousands of remote clients to verify accuracy of its statistics. Worse the entire system slows down while this is occurri...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Bring back the Spectrum Protect Web Client

What was our main way of doing restores and manual backups is now gone. For over twenty years I have used tsm - spectrum protect and using the web client which was big part of that time. Without it we have to remote desktop to servers taking away ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Historical data on vSnap utilization

Customer requests the ability to have historical report of vSnap storage utilization over time (i.e. past 90, 365 days or greater). The report should show changing vSnap utilization and compression / deduplication ratios broken down into a chart o...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Physical Usable capacity view in License Compliance Tab

Need the ability to display Physical Usable capacity in the Spectrum Control License Compliance Tab. Many customers that are virtualizing IBM storage behind San Volume Controller are licensed based on "Physical Usable" capacity so their licensed c...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

REST api for dsmadmc

We are doing some "automated" tasks in Spectrum Protect and we are currently doing it by calling dsmadmc.exe (and args). But starting such an process for every request is rather time consuming - and heavy cpu/memory on the Windows machine (having ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

The file cataloging function does not support dynamic disks

Need to have a file cataloging function that support dynamic disk.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> improve vDisk copy delete function and progress

Deleting a vDisk copy in the DRP pool can be a long process if the copy is compressed or deduplicated. Unfortunately, you can not figure out how long it will take. This would require a display in the GUI and a command on the command line. During t...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Enable an Audit trail for VM and applications

Auditing – Enable a Audit trail for VM and applications. Audit trail is for jobs currently and doesn't provide info on object i.e. it says restore job started and completed but doesnt show the VMs recovered. From an auditing point of view customer...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

excluded VMs in unprotected list

The Policy Overview should have a excluded VM resource in my opinion. Annoying having x number of Unprotected VMs reported every day when it is perfectly ok and should not be reported as an error.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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