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    Add LTO lcd display to drives view

    Add a column to drives view that shows the LCD status digit for LTO drives.
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Change QUERY ACTLOG output to match terminal window width

    I'm not sure if this RFE applies to the server or dsmadmc client, but the request is to change the behavior of the QUERY ACTLOG command output to stretch (and wrap if necessary) to the current width of the terminal window where it is running.Other...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Snapdiff-Accounts on NetApp SVMs

    For SnapDiff usage on NetApp-clusters a cluster-level-user with suitable permissions is needed. NetApp file-services are provided by "storage virtual machines" (SVMs), which have it's own user management. We would prefer to use SVM-level-SnapDiff ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    DS8K Should Be Intelligent Enough to Compare Source and Target Data for Remote Copies

    When a relationship between a source and target system is accidentally lost, the DS8K must re-copy all the data. Instead the DS8K should be able to compare the source and target data so that only changed data or missing structures are copied. This...
    about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    S3 Interface to SPP

    The IT industry gets faster and faster and new tools get quicker implemented and all of them normally have a Restful API you can use to communicate with the new applications I have fully understanding that IBM can't support all new applications an...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Adding Support for Multi Target PPRC in CSM for Hitachi VSP5000 Systems

    We use in our Datacenter for migration last year multi target concept to migrate our old vsp to new one and use Hittachi TrueCopy and CSM to do that. We see that also Multitarget PPRC are working as expectetd but we missed the complete support of ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names

    Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names.
    about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    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 ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    SI Data Collector Status Provides Misleading Information

    The SI Data Collector Configuration page provides various pieces of status information, including the number of candidates and monitored nodes. It also as a column that reads "unreachable." I opened a support case (TS007958840) to find out why the...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Virtualize: Enhance MCStore Connectivity/Capability

    SVC's supports Cloud Object storage pools for FlashCopy Targets in 7.8. The current method for accessing cloud object storage is via the management port on the config node. This creates a problem with scalability. The request is to enhance this, p...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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