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Backport lsportstats to 8.3.1.x code stream

In the SVC 8.4 code SFP statistics have been made visible via the CLI lsportstats command. We would like to see this backported to the SVC 8.3.1.x code stream which is the current advised code stream by IBM.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

customer needs to be able to manage Spectrum Protect volumes not in defined within a storage pool.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to manage volumes not part of a storage pool. Specifically:- volumes containing exported data.- volumes containing backupsets.- DB backup/DBSnapshot media.- volumes correlated t...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Detailed License Report - Spectrum Protect Plus

The license report in SPP is not self-explanatory.Its very easy to get confused on the returned results. It would be a great help, if it was possible to expand the sources, so it was possible to see what VM's and what application instances the res...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

run OC reports and put result locally, then send the files in any way other than mail

How work with operation center to send mail since most mailservers demand authorization as of today and dont really like "anonymous" sending of mail. All reports are then blocked. It could be also of interset to see if one can run OC reports and p...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".

When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Client memory automatically shrinks.

When clients open a lot of files, MMFSD takes up a lot of memory. When the file is closed, the memory should be freed automatically.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

When cases are created it would be beneficial if we could change the case owner from the default based on who is dealing with the issue .

This would prevent unnecessary updates to the default case owner when they may not be interested . When we have a large number of cases to deal with sometime it would be better to just get updates for cases that you are interested in .
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Integrate 'Relabel Scratch' command with Fujitsu Eternus vJuke virtual libraries

Fujitsu Eternus VTLs are well known in several customer's ISP environments. Main difference to other VTLs is the ability to stack logical volumes on physical tapes in the backend.Data written to the VTL is stored in a tape volume cache (TVC) on vi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM4VE-Request to change local user to LDAP and AD user to do File Level Restore from TSM4VE Snapshot Backup on the Linux VM

Currently to do file level restore using File Restore UI from TSM for VE Snapshot backup, File Restore UI require local user of the Linux Virtual Server, But we would like to see a change so that a LDAP or AD user can perform restore using File Re...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Linux command for managing Spectrum Discover

Most UNIX/Linux users are used to work on the command line. I would like to propose the following idea: create a command called "sdcli" (Spectrum Discover cli) or "dmcli" (Data Management cli) which can be a shell or Python script and can be insta...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

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