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Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

TS4500 mini PC placement

I had the opportunity to watch the SSRs working on Call Home problem with the TS4500. I would like to suggest an engineering change on the IMC min PC physical placement for consideration. The IMC mini PC is placed at the bottom corner of the end f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

include tape pool in eeadm drive list

In eeadm drive list command, try to include options to print a more information, like: - Include a column with Node Name instead of Node ID for clarity- Include a column with the tape pool name of the tape mounted
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Use different option and configuration files in FlashCopyManager for TDP SQL

Since the TDP for SQL GUI has been deprecated and replaced by FlashCopyManager as a GUI, we are unable to select which "dsm.opt" and "tdpsql.cfg" files will be used to perform backups and restores i.e. we are forced to use the default ones: * "c:\...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Trigger Error 1195 A node has been missing for 30 minutes after any condition that has a node in a non functional state.

Generally the sequence we have seen is a 1196 warning email that a node has failed and then 30 minutes later an 1195 error indicating that the node has been gone for 30 minutes, which also generates an email, and a call home. What we have experien...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism to choose whether webhook messages events field may carry an array of events or just a single event

Spectrum Scale is capable of sending webhooks to recipients. These hooks contain information about events and such. According to Scale’s documentation, this is the json payload of such hooks: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.5?topic=...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Support for Ubuntu

Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operations Center alerting modification

Configure alerting only on the hub server. The hub server should be the monitoring instance which is configured to send emails to administrators defined on hub server. The configuration wizard only shows the admin id's of the hub server. This curr...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

support cephfs with full ACL support

cephfs is a scalable filesystem with full posix campatibility. The need to support this filesystem with full ACL support is needed.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration