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mmhealth should complain about NSDs which have lost one path

Listing the NSDs shows that some of themhave only one path available. One of the two servers of a building block does not see the Volume:[root@justnsd01a ~]# mmlsnsd -f cesSharedRoot -X Disk name NSD volume ID Device Devtype Node name Remarks ----...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Add SNMP V3 support for events/traps in HMC

Hello, we are implementing monitoring of SNMP events in WWAO focal point and seems it's possible to setup trap in HMC (DS8950F) using V2 only but customer would like to have V3 due to security reasons.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Secure LCU from PPRC Target

I would like to be able to keep a volume(s) from being used for a PPRC target. I would prefer it to be protected at the LCU/LSS level. Since there is no user associated with a PPRC target, resource groups do not apply. I want to be able to protect...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Need support of Power 8/9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add Logical Volume MiB used to TS7700 search engine

The TS7700 Virtual Tape system knows about the space used for each logical volume with data, but the search logical volume panel does not have an option to report on volume usage, and its critical.
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necess...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP integration with vmware VIX

VMware VIX api integration provides a very useful tool to avoid VMware virtual machines can backup/restore indivual files from Hypervisor instead of accessing directly to the VM. VM accesses is not necessary. In many customers, VM networks are not...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level. This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thre...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

Deliver Spectrum Connect as container image (Docker)

Customers are very considered by the demand for root access to install Spectrum Connect. At some customers its impossible to get around this demand.One way around it would be to deliver a Dicker image of the product.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration