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    Add scheduled task progress and concatenation visibility

    With CSM 6.3.17, there is no easy capability yet in the task overview, to recognize which tasks are concatenated and how they are concatenation to get an idea about the overall task flow. Furthermore, there is no indication which task is being exe...
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    DS8900 ability to run advanced call home for SI on HMC

    Customer is retiring older windows VM machines that run the SI data collector. They would like the ability to have advanced call home for SI on these systems so that they don't have to standup dedicated systems just to run a data collector for sys...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

    Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    vSnap – migrate data from one vSnap to another vSnap

    vSnaps of SPP are created but in the lifecycle the amount of data will increase. When a new vSnap is needed to increase capacity at the moment only new VMs will be backed up to this vSnap. To migrate data of vSnaps you need to create a new policy:...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add a projection of "free logical capacity" to the GUI

    Add a projection of "free logical capacity" to the GUI (under the assumption, that the future compression factor will be similar to the existing one). The total logical capacity, as it is the "addressable limit" in case of very good compression re...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Add a user choice capability for displaying different capacity units in the GUI

    The GUI Dashboard screen provides capacity information which is great for the user. However, the graphs are displayed in TiB, the mouseover tooltip displays values in kmod1. This is irritating for the user. Some users like to handle their capacity...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Assign an alias right at instance creation

    When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Needs more information

    Automatic Safegurded volumes to s3 or COS

    With safeguarded copy, we have a fantastic solution to provide an immutable copy of a volume. Rapid recovery is effective if the volume resides on the storage array, however, with ransoware taking 200+ days to detect, it is less likely this volume...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Planned for future release

    SP server receiving STA messages should write STA messages out to filetextexit

    This idea is related to idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPF-I-3471 requesting that the Storage Protect storage agent should report all its messages to the Storage Protect server it is connecting to. The Storage Protect server receiving the messag...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Identify nodes having open files which blocks quiesce file system/filesets

    We had the situation that the unlink fileset command failed: [root@xstm-d07-01 samples]# mmunlinkfileset exa_project1 training2601 -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset training2601 has open files. Specify -f to force unlink.mmunlinkfil...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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