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    CEC status reporting enhancement

    During a current issue with a DS8000 CEC failure (on a DS8880 device), the status of the CEC reported to either CSM or storage insights was that the CEC was active. This is apparently the result of the status coming back as ok simply because the e...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Session warning status in the event of DS8k CEC failure

    When a DS8k experiences a CEC failure, CSM reports errors on LCUs that are associated with that CEC and changes the session status to Severe (giving the impression to the customer that there is a mirroring problem or scenario that would cause issu...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Cloud Tiering by filespace for non-VM nodes

    DEFINE SUBRULE LONGTERM LEGALHOLD LEGALHOLD001 ACT=TIERBYAGE TIERD=62 MAXPROC=20 FILESPACE="/longterm" ANR1998E DEFINE SUBRULE: Invalid value for FILESPACE parameter - /longterm The documentation does not clearly state, and only vaguely alludes to...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    add more function on TSM operation Center

    • If is it possible we can setup server group, each user access Ops center, he/she can choose their server group to review and operation, • For sever webpage, is it possible to show both TSM instance name and OS host name, since we have several TS...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

    DS8000 API - Enhanced Event filter

    The current event endpoint does not provide a way to filter out inactive errors and warnings. Neither does the response indicate whether the event is active/inactive. There is no way to poll for currently relevant issues. This filter is available ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Global Mirror has too many tuneables and most real-world deployments require tuning

    Product: Virtualize Products Description: GM and MM tuneables should be reduced in number and complexity. For example: The product could calculate the bandwidth requirements for a GM relationship based on the IO load on a system and either a user-...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    LNET router equivalent for GPFS

    Support LNET routers for GPFS to allow GPFS NSD servers to be connected to multiple disparate high speed fabrics without needing to directly place the NSD server on each fabric. Ideally the router would have as little state as possible and there w...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Execute failed VM backups within schedule

    TSM for VE has been deployed as a replacement for other vendors solutions. It is being developed well but some of the core functionality is lacking, for example the ability to re-run failed backups without having to create new adhoc schedules ever...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to backup TOC objects to a Container pool.

    There is an immediate need for the feature enhancement in Spectrum Protect to have the ability to backup TOCs to a Container pool besides current ability for backup server to collect and store file-level information in a table of contents (TOC) wh...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    include a record in SPserver SUMMARY_EXTENDED for missed scheduled ( successful=no )

    We need a single table to compute SLA , summary_extended seems to be the one to use. But we realized missed schedules are not included . they are in the events table.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

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