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Need ability to toggle interfaces back to undefined from SCSI or FICON

This would make is easier to determine which interfaces are actually in error for loss of light.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 Needs more information

Incorporate Google and MS Authenticators to FlashSystem MFA

Currently the supported MFAs are Duo and IBM Verify.I received a few requests from customers that do not work with Verify nor Duo, and requested to have the other options as well.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Needs more information

MFA features require to add Google authentication

Currently, IBM Spectrum Protect has Google authentication enabled, but IBM Flash Storage and SVC do not support Google authentication or MFA features. Including this functionality in upcoming versions would be highly beneficial, as it would allow ...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Needs more information

Reclaim database space

I know that Storage Protect automatically does some database maintenance operations, such as reorganization. It would also be useful do do some equivalent of db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE LARGESPACE1 REDUCE MAX" (and/or the same for other tablespaces), to...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Needs more information

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights and Spectrum Control

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights, and Spectrum Control Also there are multiple KVM offerings available, which can be evaluated to add support in Storage Insights.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Needs more information

Global Copy pacing

We would like to be able to pace Global Copy so that we can make sure it does not cause any performance degradation on target DS8. So far, only a poke is available, not manageable from client. Suggestion is: a setting, editable through DSCLI, whic...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 Needs more information

Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM Insights

In IBM insights there in feature to view Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM InsightsAdding them will be benefit for customer.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Needs more information

Add basic Hardware Monitoring to Storage Insight for b-type SAN Switches

I would like to see the feature implemented into the Cloud Version of Storage Insights. We have added all our Storage, SVCs and SAN Switches to have a single pane of glass for our storage networking. We believed that hardware error events would sh...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Needs more information

Background Processes not visible in SVC-GUI (Code Level 8.7.0.1)

Hello Team. A few weeks ago we upgraded one of our SVC's from code level 8.6.0.3 to 8.7.0.1. Since we are on 8.7.0.1 (also happened with code level 8.6.0.3) we are wondering why no background processes (such like vdisk mirroring, volume formatting...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Needs more information

Show Buffer-Credit configured per Switch-Port

Provide a column on the switch port page with the configured buffer credits. This would help to prove a virtualize configuration or to identify a possible congerstion source.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights Needs more information

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