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Storage Insights to Allow CSV Reporting for Consumer and Chargeback Reports

Please add the ability to send CSV attachments of the Consumer and Chargeback reports, as have been added for the other reports available in Storage Insights. Also if there can be an option to add a line with totals at the bottom of each report th...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Operation center does not support working with server groups

Because of the size of our environment (30 servers) we use servergroups for several things like for instance routing a command to several servers at once. The use, creation and modification of server groups is currently not supported in operation ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Initial config

Initial config does not state that ethernet requires access to vmkernel network. A quick test during config can fix this. Otherwise you need to add a nic, find cli user/password and manually config the new nic. Best practice is to have one mgmt ni...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate the use of ssh and sudo wrappers

In most installations sshd PermitRootLogin is required to be NO for security reasons.That means sudo wrappers must be used. We do not use linux provided sudo but a vendor provided replacement that is centrally managed and auditable. We've had a di...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Storage Insights to display PPRCPATH Pairing Information from the DS8000

We already have Copy Data statistics that pull in a wide range of information with regard to copy pairs, etc. Would it be possible to include PPRC Paths and their pairings at the LCU level, just like we can retrieve from DSCLI and the GUI? This wo...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Simplify and Enhance the Copyset Build Process using the GUI Copyset Build Wizard

We utilize CSM in our environment a lot and that utilization is increasing. Typically and probably for most users, we build the session and then have to go out to excel or some other method externally to build the .csv to build the copyset pairing...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

GPFS client support larger memory address space

Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

SI Data Collector Status Provides Misleading Information

The SI Data Collector Configuration page provides various pieces of status information, including the number of candidates and monitored nodes. It also as a column that reads "unreachable." I opened a support case (TS007958840) to find out why the...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

NDMP Restore function for normal GUI client

Please implement NDMP filelevel restore functions in the normal GUI client like they were in the webgui client.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Catalog backup SLA report

Hello, We are a MSP which has ESA agreement with IBM. We provide IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a service to our customers and guarantee %100 restore for the backups they take.Of course, we only offer this to our customers who receive Managed Servic...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration