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CSM Option to Send Alert When Session Returns to Normal Status

We would like the option to have CSM send an alert when sessions return to a Normal status after they have gone to a Warning or Critical status.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

SPP should support running different code levels on the SPP server and vSnap servers during migration/upgrades

SPP customers running a single SPP server with many vSnap servers need to be able to upgrade the SPP code in the environment in a controlled/phased manner. This means that they need to upgrade the SPP server and vSnap servers at different times an...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Alert when Storwize devices are seeing slow internode traffic

If the internode traffic is too high for an extended period of time, send out a warning. If it above a certain threshold, send out an error. I'm not sure what the warning/error thresholds should be ( I'll leave that to IBM ). In this situation rel...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

CallHome feature add to use SMTP in addition to HTTPS

System: ESS EMS node models: 5148-21L 5105-22E Actor: Client needing additional CallHome feature ESS EMS node is a mandatory component of ESS building blocks. CallHome is currently supporting HTTPs protocol through internet via proxy server. Clien...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

Allow user to append a comment svctask commands

This is to allow user to optional add a comment to svctask command in order to provide an indication or refer to a change number when making changes to Spectrum Virtualise.This would also be captured in the audit log.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 to the IBM DS8000

The future of DS8000 for IBM Z and LinuxONE will need to add Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 interface to the DS8000 to satisfy the needs of the AI Data centers. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CX...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Directory container pools wasting space because of missing reclamation

We need of some kind of reclamation or defragmentation process for containers in directory-container storage pools, because thousands of nearly empty containers waste space in the filesystem. So despite deduplication, much more space is used than ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Improved reporting to support daily operations

Customers have requested a better way to report and manage space within a pool. The example given was:It is very difficult to work out how much space a snapshot or a series of snapshots are consuming in a pool with IBM storage, other vendors make ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Additional information/option for query session command

Adding tcp_name (DNS) and/or ip address to query session command (extending sessions table). Add an option to query node to provide specific node name like "query session node=XYZ" to find out a node is currently accessing the server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Provide License Report Granularity on Users/Roles/Resource Groups

In order to represent and determine a cost model for the usage of SPP, please enhance the licensing report (System > License) to be able to select additional options/filters. Filters should be bound to resource groups, users or roles. Target is...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release