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Update the mmexpelnode command to have a "-C <remote cluster>" option to expel all nodes from a remote cluster

During file system issues in a NSD Server Cluster it is sometimes required to expel all nodes from remote clusters so that file system recovery can be preformed. Shutting down or stopping GPFS on remote clusters takes too much time with very large...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

Library initialization at SP Server startup needs improvement

When a Storage Protect server is starting up, it is querying the inventory of each tape library defined to this Storage Protect server. the Storage Protect server is using a 256KB buffer to store the inventory information returned by the tape libr...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

Preview of mmreclaimspace for a determinate threshold

The idea is to have a preview of the mmreclaimspace without actually running it to have an idea of how much space will be recovered by a certain threshold. This can be interesting due to the lower the threshold is, the more impacte in performance ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

IBM Storage Ready Node for Defender Sentinel

Clients would benefit as they could procure the whole Sentinel solution from IBM and have it all supported by the same vendor. This also should take out the guesswork for sizing (by providing different T-Shirt sizes to scan a certain amount of TBs...
9 months ago in Defender Ready Nodes Under review

TS7700 (VTS) - Simplify Certificate Management - accept .pfx or .p12 certificate format

As the VTS does not support to generate a certificate on the machine itself and only create a sign request. I need to order (from a CA) a certificate that holds the private and public key in a .p12 or .pfx format. However, to upload I have to manu...
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Reduce the alert severity for TPI

Current TPI requests spam SNMP, syslog and email alerts as they are currently set to "error" severity. Also requires to be marked as "fixed" in GUI.
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data Prote...
9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Under review

The different pokes for DS8K subsystems should be documented

In DS8K there exist different pokes - which is internal settings that change the default Microcode behavior. A poke is typically set by a DS8K SME based on a case. But as it could help solve problems for you, you need to know that the poke exists....
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Perform Remote Pair FlashCopy on *all* Metro Mirror pairs in a parallel PPRC setup

We have four site replication where the primary devices have two targets (Parallel Metro Mirror). Currently Remote Pair FlashCopy (pmir) is only able to be enabled on one leg. When HyperSwap is enabled on the leg without pmir enabled, a FlashCopy ...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

show total host fibre port count

2048 is the hard limit for Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group. It would be useful if the system could show how many ports are defined and in use in the fibre channel connectivity panel. Thanks
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review