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Match field names in UI and REST API

In working with the REST API and spectrum discovers UI side-by-side,we've come across a couple of differences between the two. Specifically, for policy creation the UI requires a "Policy type", while the API requires and "action_id".Additionally, ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

CSM TOCHECK ON HDS HYPERSWAP that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source LCUs

CSM team confirmed that per current design there is a check made by CSM that one source LCU has no more than 4 target, but there is not a check made into the opposite direction that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

update ffdc to gather more information

Please enhance "ffdc ALL" to gather all logfiles that are needed by IBM support and development.Currently there are several debug logs not included that require support staff to request with instructions.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Increase the supported number of independent and dependent filesets x 10

10000 dependent fileset and 1000 independent filesets are not enough for some systems.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SP4VE File recovery : reports user whom initiated file restore

We are using SP4VE in a full service mode so user can do restore on its own through the many interfaces available. However, security policies enforce us to track who's doing what. Thus, we need to have the information on who is requesting/initiati...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add Spectrum Visualize internode cluster traffic to Spectrum Control and Storage Insights

There isn't a way in SC or SI to monitor this performance.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Automatic Failover Failback with Node Replication

Today Node Replication is more or less only constrained to DR. However after meeting with Greg Tavis and other developers it's clear that this feature is changing in the future to be able to backup and recover from both the source and the target s...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enabling the NVMe over TCP/IP with 5G network connectivity

1- Adding Advanced functionalities with easy programming for storage operations. 2- Enabling Fast, Standard, Reliable and Remote Storage Area Networking.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

Adding the NVMe over TCP/IP to the DS 8000 Connectivity and functionalities

The benefits are: 1-Enabling the DS8000 Storage to be integrated with Distributed Sysplex and Edge Computing based on 5G Networks. 2- Enabling the DS8000 to transfer data over unified 5G network with Edge Computing. 3-Enabling the Intelligent Mana...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Data Foundation Metro-DR - automate or remove manual steps to have to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover

Currenty, in a Metro-DR topology, when Data Policy is invoked (from ACM), there is a requirement to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover. In our env these PVCs were orginially StatefulSets. But the source OCP cluster has be...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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