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Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Reporting Capacity Usage on volumes in hyperswap, 3-site, 2-site and volume group snapshots

We support many companies and need to be able to report the front-end usage and total capacity usage being used by them. We would like a report that captures volumes in hyperswap, 3-site, 2-site and volume group snapshots. It would be ideal if we ...
11 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Flashsystem Storage systems to have basic monitoring capability in the GUI itself. Eg: alert or notify on volume capacity used or state based on set threshold on the system itself. Basically, the system itself to have basic/flexible monitoring capability

This is useful when we look at the system we can get all kind of alert/notification including volume used capacity. This will enhance visibility with respect to monitoring and alerting and will add an extra layer of protection from causing outage ...
11 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

A command to reapply management class on a volume or list of volumes

Objective is to reduce migration time and correction time in case of error.
11 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Add DarkMode to the GUI

I suffer with eye strain and light sensitivity and it seems like supporting a dark mode is pretty straight forward.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Planned for future release

Enhance mmshutdown confirm shutdown logic to make it ctrl-c resistend.

We had a maintenance window and want to update a storage-cluster that own 20 FS for native K8s and OCP-Clusters. We see if a additionally mmshutdown are happen and the Admin make on the prompt a ctl-c the shutdown process are working together and ...
22 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

GUI : capacity information consistency

Different information/ mismatch between ‘used capacity’ and ‘total capacity’. Monitoring -> Files -> Filesets -> view details -> used capacity Due to the fact, that two file copies are made on the filesystem on ESS storage cluster , th...
22 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Object Lock for CES-S3

We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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