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Client suggest that we build a utility that can do a health check on the network connection between two partnered systems and report back if any necessary ports are open and correct certificate is in use. Vasiliy indicated that there is such a utility used by GPFS.

Clients setting up partnerships or troubleshooting connection errors after changes are made to the networks.
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes Under review

Perform Remote Pair FlashCopy on *all* Metro Mirror pairs in a parallel PPRC setup

We have four site replication where the primary devices have two targets (Parallel Metro Mirror). Currently Remote Pair FlashCopy (pmir) is only able to be enabled on one leg. When HyperSwap is enabled on the leg without pmir enabled, a FlashCopy ...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Global Mirror RPO Alerting from DS8000

Clients running Global Mirror replication are always concerned about the state of their replication - mainly through the RPO metric. Currently, there is no direct RPO reporting that is handled by the DS8000 system itself. For clients not using man...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Create a hidden command to allow a change for the number of concurrent SSH connections to SVC/FlashSystem

The current limits of SVC/FlashSystem software to the admin connection limit the ability to run ansible playbooks and/or ssh automations during cluster migrations and can limit the ability to automate failovers of a large number of systems during ...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Allow Replication Partnership via secondary management interface

We run a MS and need to onboard customers, sometimes, via replication.Our primary mgmt interface is used for internal replication and is completely out of bound from customer networks. Allowing the establishment of replication partnerships over th...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

IBM SP4C - Automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process

Customer has requested the ability for IBM SP4C to automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process. While the current restore functionality works, it does not automatically restores tabs to their previous state, requiring users t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Under review

now ibm csi issue job to gui, gui only has 16 threads to handle it, in some condition it is very slow, gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task

gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

SP4C - Backing up Google Meet recordings & logs

The customer is considering SP4C to manage backups of Google Meet recordings and logs as part of their information governance strategy. As Meet recordings are typically stored in the organizer's Google Drive, the customer intends to utilize SP4C a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Under review

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