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Remote Support Disconnect button

In the Support Assistance screen on FlashSystem our customer would like to have a disconnect button. We understand we can do this with the command line but the customer feels a button to disconnect in the GUI would be more helpful. On a call with ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Consistent VDisk copy protection during ESC Incremental Resynch and/or Volume Migration

During volume migration and volume copy incremental synchronization in stretch cluster configurations, until the second copy is consistent again, the loss of the primary site will command restoring data from tape backup into the second site capaci...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes.

Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes. Similar to mmdiag –iohist, or better - output json to be gathered by api's.Monitor the block-size read/write per applicationMonitor the IO pattern per application – rand/read/seq etc.Monitor pa...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize VSS provider has to support Hyperswap configurations

There are currently limitations in the VSS HW provider used with IBM Flashsystem 9100 in Hyperswap configuration. This prevents Spectrum Protect Snapshot from supporting these configurations.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FTP and HTTP CES support

Support FTP and HTTP access on CES protocol nodes.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

V7000 QOS function to prioritize workload

The V7000 QOS function (I/O Governing) can limit the I/O's on a LUN. We need a functionality as I/O Priority Manager on DS8870 that can prioritize the I/O's on a LUN. Can we get this kind of function on the V7000?
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Enhance RAS to add a mmhealth threshold update Funktion in mmhealth framework

Currently to change a parameter in the mmhealth thresholds this is only possible with delete and add this same rule. This is error-prone to change only on parameter.The support enhance the servicability to justify one parameter in the threshold ru...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Error/warning on degraded hosts

Currently when a host is in degraded state, the events are not showing any warning or error. Hence there is a chance that these degraded hosts goes unnoticed. So I suggest to have a warning/error to be reported in the events for any host went into...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

TSM client Web GUI in TSM vwersion 8.1.4

TSM client Web GUI availability in TSM server version 8.1.4.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

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