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    DS8910F REST-API Temperature

    Hello IBM, we want to monitoring the temperature of the DS8910F. As we already know, there are three possible options: Option 1: The GUI shows the temperature as follows: GUI -> Monitoring -> Performance -> Metrics -> Environment ->...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Allow ISF SW version licensing based on TB instead of VPCs for small setups

    We are facing problems on the pricing of ISF based on VPCs for small setups as they only need a range of 10-20TB . When doing the VPC pricing is really hard to sell the product at this stage as customer are not needing a high capacity
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    More granulary distribution and documentation of roles

    We need a more detailled way to manage the rights and roles in our DS8k environment, as we have received the requirement from our Security department to monitor and restrict roles based on Users etc. Expected GUI enhancements and display of which ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    have supported way to easily clone a SP instance

    If customers wish to build a standard protect instance template, it cannot easily be cloned to deploy multiple protect servers. For example, each SP server has a "viewable" identity (server name), but also several hidden identifiers (unique ID # i...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Another one is when will Bob on Storage Fusion be officially supported

    These getting very common in Region like Europe and Middle East
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    SPP: Implement link feature for jobs

    Currently SPP only offers a job scheduling by time. To leverage the backup (and replication) window at a maximum, it would be great to have a "link feature" for jobs.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    The ability to see snapshot size in WebUI

    To give a quick overview of the change rate in a file set and of course see the size of the snapshot
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    List Fileset Capacity of Data in Different Pools

    Using the mmlsfileset command, GUI, or both - add ability to see what is the capacity of the fileset on differnet pools. If a filesystem has different pools ie. system, tier1, tier2, etc... using the mmlsfileset command get the percentage of the f...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future 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

    AFM: honor dataStructureDump for temp directory

    Currently on error conditions AFM will dump to /tmp. In the cases where prefetch fails for large files, it has the potential to overrun /tmp and hang the system.
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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