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    ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

    It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    DS8A hardware support for a Copy target to be the source for multi target copy relation

    Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 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 ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Instant VMDK Restore with Overwrite Capabilities

    German customer would like the option of restoring VMDK over top of the exisiting original VMDK. The restore today only mounts the VMDK in parallel when recovered back to the original. Competitor VMware VDP for which SPP replaced was able to do a ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

    With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    Ability to monitor performance utilization. If a Datastore is performing too much IO, Add a mechanism to drill down to specific VM causing the performance impact within that datastore.

    Once vCenter is registered using “Add vCenter” successfully, corresponding hosts and virtual machines are listed (and can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu option). If user choose a particular “Virtual Machine “ it gives details , esp...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Add security certificate expiration date to "query status" output

    Current options for viewing security certificate include an actlog entry when the server is started and an option to toggle on an ANR message for every session. Having the expiration date in the query status output would make an easy way for custo...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Global Mirror RPO Alerting from DS8000

    Clients running Global Mirror replication are always concerned about the state of their replication - mainly through the RPO metric. Currently, there is no direct RPO reporting that is handled by the DS8000 system itself. For clients not using man...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Protocols - S3: optional directory path for S3 CreateBucket

    We would like to see the flag (--filesystemPath) from the mms3 command on the protocol nodes implemented in the actual API. We have teams that utilize the s3 api that we would like to be able to have them specify the path themselves instead of hav...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support Assistant - Remote Support - Automatic Token re-generation

    Be able to set an automatic time for re-generating the support assistant token
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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