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    Have the ability to report serial numbers for all data-bearing components in the DS8000

    Be able to identify and report the serial numbers of all data-bearing components on the DS8000. Reporting must be automated so Morgan Stanley can retrieve component details as needed.
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    SPP: Implement different "log options" for serviceability

    SPP currently only offers one "log download" option, which always includes the vSnaps & VADP logs and a lot of SPP GUI logs.In larger envirnments with a few vSnaps & VADPs, we've seen those support packages grow to 6GB and take longer than...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

    We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    DRP Pool Metrics per vDisk -> Sizes and Savings

    The vDisk display in DRP pools must match those of the legacy pools. Especially the size display and the savings have to be transparent. New functions like deduplication and compaction schould get their own metric as well.
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Add HMC's IP address when creating certificate signing request on DS8K GUI

    Currently the certificate signing request created via the DS8K's GUI only allow to have the HMC's DNS in it. If we could add the HMC's IP then both the connection via the DNS and the IP would be secure after the certificate is imported.
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    MDISK removal advanced features

    It would be great to be able to tune rmmdisk performance, I mean, selecting all mdisks to remove from a pool and ensure a few things: 1.- Do no write extends on mdisks that have been also selected for removal, it has no sense to put workload in md...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 Multiple NTP Server Addresses for Redundancy

    This would be a robust configuration if the TS7700 MI can allow multiple entries for NTP time servers (just like the DS8950 MI), and/or allow LTM/GTM IP addresses and have one IP address that goes on a round robin of available NTP servers in the p...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Add a Quantity field to the Licensed Feature Codes table in the MI GUI for TS7700

    When installing new feature code licenses on the TS7700 GUI, there is not a quantity count for some of the features such as FC 5263. We recently ordered new licensed capacity for TS7700 (QTY 3 of FC 5263 for a total of 300TB). We got one key code ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Enhanced Resiliency when CSM has multiple connections to a DS8000

    It is possible to connect CSM to a specific DS8000 via multiple simultaneous methods. For instance, connections can be created through both DS8000 HMCs and through z/OS connectivity at the same time. In the case that a query or eligible command fa...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Improve Retension Policies

    Improve SPP retention policies.Make them similar to classic TSM. (1) Option to always keep last X copies - this means that if the backup fails to run, it does not expire your existing backups. We have been in a situation where SPP was down for 2 w...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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