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IP Quorum allow a chance to increase logging size 2. why is the application based on outdated java runtime

1. Customer would like a way to increase the size of logging for the ip quorum application for troubleshooting .2. why is this application based on an older java runtime .
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

"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...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Operation Center option to only send report if there is output

Operation Center "Configure Report" should have a checkbox to prevent sending a report if there is no output.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

Consistency between Disk # and Drive letter when using TAG INCLUDE:N or EXCLUDE:N

spectrum protect TAGS to include or exclude disk from tdp4ve backup are not consitent over time
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

GUI should schedule daily policy runs

Customers often needs to run a set of policies on filesystems as daily maintenance. F.ex.: * Compress files * Migrate new files from primary to secondary pool * Premigrate data to tape/cloud/external pool, so that when a capacity-based trigger can...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

The result of DSCLI command showckdvol is too slow. Related to TS010511348.

To find out which SafeGuarded Copy page is used, we need to issue showckdvol commands on each volume. We have many volumes and each order takes a long time (sometimes more than a minute). How to have a better response time on this order? This idea...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Agregate messages on DS8000's HMC. Related to TS010580871.

On the HMC of DS8000, some messages appear several hundred times (1 message per volume). Would it be possible to combine these messages into a generic message? And to allow them to be seen by unfolding the generic message (example by clicking on +...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

RHEL 8 server support

After Linux: Minimum Linux x86_64 server requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.install/r_srv_lnx_sysreq_inst_x-linux.htmlthere is RHEL support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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

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