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SVC management GUI does not select the config node by default

When we open the SVC management GUI and go to the screen named “Download Support Package” (where we can view or create support logs), the GUI has pre-selected a view that shows a list of available files. Usually the SVC node that is selected for v...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

enhanced charging to support compressed/uncompress volume

Today:- It is possible to measure data on different levels on the TSM Server- SELECT * FROM FILESPACES Can be used to see the allocated and used space on filesystems on the clients But does not give correct results on databases, as both CAPACITY a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Copy Services Manager Needs a 'run once' scheduling option

CSM v6.2.8 currently provides the following scheduling options:1. Running a task at an interval of 0.5-144 hoursor 2. Running a task at a set time on any number of days each weekor3. No Schedule I wish to setup a task, pick a 4th option 'run once'...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Display/edit Storage pool property

Currently the new SVC GUI doesn't offer any way to display or edit the pool properties. We would like to have the ability to change some of the pools attributes via the new GUI. The following attributes should be included:- Easy Tier - Capacity wa...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Automatic Quorum Selection isn't intelligent enough

If using automatic quorum selection it would be beneficial for the quorum drives to automatically be assigned across multiple controllers/back-end devices if available. This will help if someone forgets to update quorum drivers when an SVC gets a ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster - Hosts Site Awareness

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster provides site awareness to SVC Nodes and Storage Controllers, allowing an optimized IO routing and policing between the SVC Nodes and the back-end Storage arrays, however it lacks Site associations for Host objects. ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DOD Certified Erasure tools

Would like a new tab under the settings for Erasure of pools / arrays that is DOD certified for use in Federal space and adheres to a configurable wipe method and select-able features or configurable run times.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Account SE

System: Spectrum ScaleRefer the case ID TS002297333. Actor: User needing new feature for Recovery In customer's environment, there are 2 AD servers to have reliability when the one AD server get down.Spectrum scale(SS) can't get the bemefit of it ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

ICKDSF FLASHCPY support for PAV on z/VSE

System: ICKDSF under z/VSEActor: Restore the original function of ICKDSF FLASHCPY with PAV enabled. Descrition: The enabling of PAV under z/VSE will make the IO from ICKDSF to go through the alias address. There is no way to bypass this address se...
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server should be able to display what clients are sending 'pre-deduplicated' data

either in operations center, or with a simple select statement, it should be possible to display if a client is actually sending deduplicated data to the Spectrum protect server.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

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