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Ingress Rate Limiting for Storage Devices on Fibre Channel

Need ALL storage devices to support ingress rate limiting with FC connections.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Alerting creation with OR condition

Currently multi conditional condition rule are using AND condition, in some situation ( for example where the threshold is the same) it would be efficient to create one rule with a OR condition
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Allow creation of multi condition rules with selection of different (connected) devices

Currently when we create an alert all the criteria available in the Alert Definition are related to the specific selected device, As now we have SAN Switch supported by SI ( but this is valid as well for Server) , this would be very beneficial to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect define replication server can use multiple ip on tsm server

we want define replication server use multiple ip on tsm server . or can we use hostname for replication server and then add multiple ip resolve onetc/hosts ?
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

TSM for VE VC Plugin - Scheduled Reporting

Currently within the TSM for VE 6.4 VC Plugin the reporting option allows you to generate a report. I would like the addition of a scheduled report generation option to automatically update and send the content of the report to a distribution list...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

All GPFS services need to support FIPS.

Because of DISA-STIG requirements, all systems we use must enable FIPS. mmcallhome (and maybe other components of GPFS) use MD5 summing, which will not work on a FIPS enabled system. This needs to be fixed.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Add hyperlinks from status icons on SPP Dashboard

When accessing the Dashboard the customer would like to have the summary sections at the top of the screen as hyperlinks.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add JCL to IWNALLOC for SAMPLIB & ASAMPLIB

Please add JCL in the IWNALLOC.JCL file to include SAMPLIB and ASAMPLIB.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SVCDTA volumes with same Preferred Node As source

We are creating snapshot on Flashsytem 7200 using a SVCDTA configuration;volumes are created automatically but not on the same preferred node as the source volume. According IBM to IBM best practices (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/flashcopy-co...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration