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    Need to be able to report IO Density in GUI for QoS Settings Montioring

    Currently you cannot see the reports for the performance of volumes with QoS settings in the GUI. There is no indication of how closely the volumes are vs. the QoS settings nor their peaks.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Throttling at Pool Level Should Apply to All Volumes in Pool

    The Bandwidth or IOPs settings should apply to all volumes in a pool instead of the pools themselves and be across whole clusters.This will save considerable operational effort and tooling development time.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    ANR2578W and ANR2579E - Include node hostname information

    One of the roadblocks we have at the moment is that the missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname of the node. ANR2578W Schedule schedule name in domain domain name for node node name has missed its scheduled start up windo...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Include proxy node (PROXY_AGENT) info in actlog

    When using proxy nodes to put data into a single proxy target, it would be nice if operations by proxy nodes (PROXY_AGENT) are logged together with the proxy node name i a seperate column in the TSM server activity log.If backups are done directly...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

    SpecVirt location field doesn't allow non-alphanumeric chars

    The "location" field in Spec Virt products doesn't allow for non-alphanumeric chars.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

    SI/SC makes reconciliation between custom and default alert policies different

    SI and SC do not allow for modifying default alert policies; customer modifications require creating new policies.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Provide Splunk Integration for Spectrum Protect Plus

    Allow SPP audit logs and VSNAP logs to be forwarded to Splunk or another platform for easier monitoring.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

    Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
    almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Report sorting/filter options so we can view scheduled jobs or by other custom group

    With the ever growing list of reports that are being created it is getting a bit of a hassle to find the report I need. I think we need to be able to filter by active/scheduled and also by a "folder" for use as a client,manager,team, etc. It could...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Make filename handling independent of locale settings

    I previously raised this as a bug in TSM with PMR 60127,040,678 but was instructed to raise it with RFE community instead, so here it goes. The spectrum protect client does not back up all valid files when the locale settings are set to a multibyt...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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