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DS8000 "Service Required" with Yellow components / orange triangle with an exclamation mark should occur ONLY IF IBM support is needed.

Customer First-Level-Operations has to manage multiple Systemes (including DS8000 with SIMs, SNMP-Traps and more). In case of any alert First-Level-Operations checks the situation by Messages and is using the GUI https://ip-addr/DS8000/gui#dashboa...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

VM Restore Types - Change Naming

Change the VM restore naming types – They are confusing mostly because test creates an active clone and clone doesnt! In my opinion Test should be renamed Instant Access (can still create an active clone that you can move into production or cleanu...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Proactive alerting

Proactive alerts setup to alert when CPU, memory, configuration catalog, recovery catalog and file catalog are reaching 75%+ to flag more resources will be required shortly.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Virtualize: SCSI ID consistency and uniqueness

#1 Host-clusters ensure SCSI ID consistency for volumes presented to clustered servers; when volumes are migrated to non-clustered storage systems the consistency needs to be maintained. This consistency is critical for VMware stability #2 When mu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add completed timestamp on failed administrative events

Add "completed" timestamp to administrative events if the administrative schedule fails.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Node Replication & DR - Enable client backup to the Target TSM Server

Enable the BA/TDP clients to send backup data to the target server in case of a failure of the primary server (node replication enabled)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Improvement of the DS8000 decommission process

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

"Totals" option for adding up how Volumes and Utilization per Application

When certain reports are selected, the ability to SUM certain fields that are selected into a "Total Summary" at the top of a report would very helpful. In the reports lets say we select Volume Report and then select the columns we want to see. Be...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Average DS8K power consumption command

My customer is interested in monitoring the power consumption of the DS8K. Apparently there's no command or any other easy way to obtain it, so they would like to be able to get the average power consumption with a command in a similar way as they...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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