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Vdisk mirror – out of sync condition / reporting

It would be a great improvement to show stale copies immediately in the Event Log, send as an SNMP trap or for example an email notification.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Improvement of the DS8000 decommission process

The embedded DSCLI should support the key management commands.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

mmhealth node show should explicitly show the cluster status, too

Currently mmhealth node show can report the node as healthy while there are problems elsewhere in the cluster, e.g. in the filesystem component:# mmhealth node show Node name: somenode.somedomain Node status: HEALTHY Status Change: 13 days ag...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

SP Client LNX set offline password

We are deploying linux systems automatically without any user interaction. For this delivery we need to set the password for the SP Client after installation. There is no solution in SP Client linux to set password by scripts or command.On windows...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

When adding SMTP information provide a Test button which will send a test email

When adding SMTP information provide a Test button which will send a test email.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Update VM success/failed summary for a job dynamically

When multiple VMs are being backed up there is no indication of how many VMs have been saved or have failed until the job is complete. The audit log for the job shows that some VMs have completed successfully and some have failed. Can the successf...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Event notification capability to mark a hardware/software event as "Acknowledged/Unfixed" to suppress daily ongoing notifications until able to be resolved.

Current Spectrum Virtualize Software behavior: When an event is triggered/logged for a hardware/software failure or pending failure it causes SNMP notification to our in-house Monitoring system that triggers a call out notification to the Team (as...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

extend the Operations Center REST API by reporting functionality

extend the Operations Center REST API by functions to query reporting values, as they are provides by the "General Operations" report
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for Azure Blob Immutable Storage

Cyber Resiliency of backup data using immutable storage needs to be possible using Azure Blob Immutable Storage, both in Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, as both products are capable of storing data in Azure Blob storage.ICOS immutable ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Provide IBM Storage Insights collectors to run in zCX

The Itau bank is one of largest GDPS and DS8K user and the Storage Insights is a strategic product to monitor the DASD performance. We have the license and we are starting the implementation of ZCX. Nowadays the Storage Insights is using Windows S...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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