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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
about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 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.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under 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...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect should have an oracle agent that replaces RMAN entirely, so proper object metadata can be handled internally, allow proper expeiration, retsets, etc.

Spectrum Protect has long been plagued by retention problems with Oracle backups. RMAN owns all of the metadata, and keeping this in sync requires sync tools, etc. In large environments, often the DBA team and the Backup team are separated. This l...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Fusion HCI Regional DR with Scale protocol instead of NFSv3

Using NFSv3 across WAN links can be impossible when customers are using IP renaming technology (via VIP and WIPs). The hard dependency on NFSv3 for AFM-DR (regional DR) has been lifted by the Scale team as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

Storwize does not provide guidance for volume sizes

Storage Products in the portfolio do NOT provide performance based advice/guidance on running environments. For Example: I want to create a 16PB volume; Spectrum Virtualize instead recommends a more sensible volume size range.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Poor Backend Device Configurations are propogated to the Storwize

Poor Backend Device Configurations, for example: DS8K with 42 pools are not prevented or warned on during setup. This causes problems as configurations which propagate bad habits are just ignored
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Migration from CPS

Provide capability for customers to move from legacy CPS hardware to fusion
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration

Requesting that customer system name be included in Call Homes for ESS and IBM Storage products.

It has been noted that ESS Call Home cases (inclusive of other IBM Storage as well) do not have the name of the system in the cases description. We are requesting that this change so that system names are included in the call home for the CSP case...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration