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Extend PBR command set

Currently PBR has some "limited" set of command available, because the idea was to keep it simple and more automatic possible. Some customer which are exploring PBR, believe that having the chance to "STOP" and "START" a VG replication w/o necessa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus hardware snapshot support

Spectrum Protect Plus currently do not support hardware snapshots as the current Spectrum Protect Snapshot a.k.a. FCM software does - and current Spectrum CDM has no option to recover (flash-revert) the production copy from a snapshot.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

CBR3750I message issued during service prep mode, because of service prep mode

When a TS7700 cluster is put in service prep mode for maintenance (RCL, for example), it ignores that it is in service prep mode and continues to issue CBR3750I message as if it was not. Some of those CBR messages generate false positive ticket an...
27 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
27 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
28 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

GUI should be quick to load overview pages, and defer the output of slow commands

F.ex. on the GUI "pools" page, we're experiencing several minute loading time on large systems. It should not be acceptable that it takes this long to load any of the pages, particularly not the initial overview pages. Rather the GUI should only s...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level.

We have a large RFP where the proposed file system must have user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level. We have a strong competition from DDN so ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Shortening Log Collection time and reduce Log size to speed up service and support for more efficiency

TS4500 Log Collection is running more then 40 minutes and the Log size is greater than 750 MB. To speed up service and support time, we have to reduca tho log colletion duration and also the size of the log files. The idea ist to speed up and shor...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration