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Collect Spectrum Virtualize raw stats

There are times where the storage insights performance data is not detailed enough or is not collecting some metrics that we need to understand performance issues.We would like to be able to enable raw stats collection where the SI data collector ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Refresh States function should function when devices are in severe status

During a recent issue where CSM lost access to the underlying DASD (due to a warmstart), it marked some of the replicated devices in a Severe state. That state never changed, even after issuing a 'Refresh States' command. You can submit a START or...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

MGM RPO graphs embedded in CSM GUI

We have 19 x DS8000 MGM sessions. All of them are managed by CSM.We need a graph (one for each MGM session) ,embedded in CSM GUI, with RPO behaviour over time.We are an outsourcer for banks and customers are asking us to certify the RPO over the t...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 5 Planned for future release

GUI should indicate if TS7700 is in 'skip' mode

We had a long VTS outage during which time errors were not being reported due to the VTS being in 'skip' mode. We would like some visible notification of the VTS being in 'skip' mode or health status screen that would show all the current componen...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Implement end-to-end checksums for non GNR environments

Implement data block checksums in GPFS to protect against silent data corruption. This is particularly important in an FPO environment where there are no RAID controllers to protect against individual SATA drives returning bad data to the applicat...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Don't report Null or no Information Returned message 2234 as an Error

Don't report Null or no Information Returned message 2234 as an Error. These should be classified as warnings instead of errors, if at all. It is not an issue if no data was returned. There may actually be no data to return on many query commands.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use VMware backup to recover SQL database

Customer have several hundered SQL servers of various importance. Customer want the ability to not only truncate SQL logs as part of the backup but also protect the SQL servers and use that backup to recover/re-use SQL databases.Customer want to d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Graceful failure of AFM recall timeouts when using AFM-NSD + Support for offline file awareness with AFM (related issues)

Any client using AFM-NSD Caching with a home storage repository that uses DMAPI aware Hierarchical Storage Management is at risk. AFM-NSD has no ability to gracefully respond when an AFM Cache requst to a recall filesfrom home times out. AFM-NFS u...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

No storage for client transaction

The customer wants to know if it is possible to get a request for improvement started so that TSM B-A clients will handle this problem file more elegantly, without blowing up server storage? We added a few hundred Unix servers to ECS (object stora...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Define VMWare backup order

I need a way to define the vm backup order within a DOMAIN.VMFULL list
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

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