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    Offer options for excluding the accumulation of some messages related to Safeguarded Copies taken off the GM Secondary in the DSGUI Events

    I currently have no visibility on events that occurred more than 3 hours ago on my primary site DS8950F because of a flood of informative " Remote Relationship State Changed" caused by the CGPAUSE needed for the SGC process taking place at seconda...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    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.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage 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...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Backup Session Bandwidth Throttling

    I would like to have a TSM backup client option that sets the maximum bandwidth that the session is allowed to use. Would like to have the option available for Windows and Linux clients.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Add CIFS/NFS to spectrum Virtualize

    Hello,A lot of customers are disappointed with the lack of files protocols on midrange storage.With the end of sales of V7K unified we are facing a major issue. All competitors are providing equivalent solution, and I think that building a solutio...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Have up to 10 data connections in circle graph

    The home screen of the Spectrum Discover web interface shows a circle graph with all data connections. This may be useful if you only have up to 10 data connections but it is confusing with more data connections. It may also cause problems when we...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

    In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Moving/VMotioning a VM should reset the tagging automatically.

    This is a manual process but SP4VE is touted as an enterprise solution, so this should be automatically addressed. We do NOT use the plugin and ARE using tagging. We have 2 ESX environments each associated with a separate TSM instance. When utiliz...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Snapshot directory to show valid creation date

    When we do ls -l on the .snapshots directory from NFS client, or GPFS client.We see strange dates which are not related to the snapshots : he dates on the snapshots directories look strange. [root@ems4 @GMT-2023.12.26-02.00.55]# mmlssnapshot gpfsO...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Snapshot policy to check number of snapashots

    Sometimes there is a problem when the policy try to create snapshot - like mmlssnapshot timeout - and this skip the creation of snapshots - and also deletion of the old snapshot by policy- this means that the older snapshot will not be delete by t...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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