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Customer access to download and manipulate logfiles

Since customer is allowed to do a code load it is evident that the log files should not contain any errors. Since the logfiles can only be downloaded from call home support and manipulated we have an issue when the customer initiated code load fails.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

REPLICATE NODE * DOMAIN=OFFSITE_*

Ability to replicate all nodes in one or more policy domains. Presently, only by node_name, or by nodegroup. There is no way to automatically update a nodegroup membership list.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

DEFINE STGRULE with directory container target

DEFINE STGRULE needs to allow directory containers as target pools, not just cloud pools.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow more than 1 IBM Storage Insights instance to monitor IBM Storage devices using Call Home with Cloud services

There are companies that provide data hosting services that manage IBM storage devices for other companies, and there are times both companies want to monitor the device using IBM Storage Insights. If both the company that use the device and the c...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude node support on Install and deploy

In an heterogene world of scale cluster we had more an more the requirement to install new nodes with higher versions of scale because of some dependencies of OS-Kernel-Levels. (ABI changes as example). We want the same function like exclude suppo...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude support on install and deploy

In the heterogene world of scale cluster we see more and more an requirement to put different versions of scale because of new deployments of OS (rhel) and other decisions and dependencies.The current toolkit installation missed this feature to ad...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

DS8 Create Volume Sets Summary View Should Include Column to Show if Volumes are to be Mapped to a Host/Cluster or Not

In the Create Volumes view in DS8 9.3 GUI, when we create a new Volume Set and Save it, the summary table of volume sets to create includes Volume Name, Pools, LSSs, Volume Addresses, Capacity, and Provisioning, but there is no indication in that ...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

DS8 2 Improvements to Create Volumes from Host Context Menu

When a user chooses the Create Volumes option from the Host context menu, that it limit down the provided options to volume types that are actually compatible to the Host Type. Eg if the host is AS/400 then only include "Create Volumes for IBM i"....
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Provide description of "Indexing new scan data" on Spectrum Discover web UI

We can see "Indexing new scan data" in the web interface under Data Connections -> Scan history. Some scans show "Indexing new scan data" for days and we don't see any progress. Is it possible to display all steps ("Scanning NFS mount", "Indexi...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Include VOLSER information in Cognos Reporting for Spectrum Control

On version 5.3.x and previous versions of Spectrum Control, VOLSER data for DS8000 arrays was present in Cognos using the Storage Volume Name. In 5.4.x, the output of Storage Volume Name is different (using the CKD volume name); the VOLSER informa...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

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