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Better vendor-independent monitoring

Currently SMI-S is the only supported vendor-neutral API. We have 5 vendors in our storage environment. The SNIA Swordfish API is not currently implemented by either vendor, with only timid hints at future implementations. We need to have professi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Provie a button or tab that exposes API calls that would have resulted in the previous GUI activity.

The command line actions used are shown when a GUI action is completed, but this does not always map to a specific API call or sequence of API calls. It would be helpful for those trying to move to automated workflows to see what the API call woul...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

StorM performance evalution problem

StorM evaluates performance better than the actual machine.StorM evaluates at 300,000 IOPS or more/1 msec or less under the following conditions. The bottleneck is CPU Utilization.FS7200, 4.8TB FCM x 13, DRAID6, Read:Write=99%:1%, Block size=6KiB,...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Storage Insights Pro on-prem array access credentials protocol requested

RPQ required for Spectrum Storage Insights Pro. The storage system credentials are required for Storage Insights to be able to collect data. These credentials are encrypted before being stored in the Storage Insights database, and the databases it...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

GM needs Ubuntu supported for the Spectrum Scale HSM Client asap

Customer has purchased 130PB SP License and needs to run Ubuntu for the Protect Server and HSM Client
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for Ubuntu Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE

Since more about 3 years now I'm fighting to get support from IBM for an Enterprise Backup solution (TSM / Spectrum Protect) for Ubuntu Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE.This already harmed IBMs and Canonical's business, since customers asked already ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Future consideration

TCP/IP Transmission Statistics

I received a request that TDMF show in performance reporting at a Session, and optionally at a Volume level, the gross amount of data bytes to send to remote sites over TCP/IP and the accumulated number of bytes processed. Including Percent Comple...
over 4 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

CLI command to show email notification status (Started or Stopped)

On occasion we have disabled notifications to suppress alerting during changes but have forgotten to turn it back on again. we know in the CLI we can "startemail" and "stopemail" to control the notifications but we cannot find a way to show whethe...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Production restore folder

"Restore in production mode if Vcenter is down" option works but this restore creates a directory in the datastore with the name of VM. If the VM folder is not identical to VM name, the production restore doesn't maitain the original name.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership

IBM Spectrum Protect Server v8.1.9.300:Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership Currently, the replicate node command works on node names, lists of node names, wildcards of node names, node groups, or lists of node groups. We wish...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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