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Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
24 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
26 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
29 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Storage Agent write to cloud container

Would be very useful to allow a storage agent to write directly to an on-prem or off-site cloud bucket. In larger environment this would help spread the load and improve backup performance. Then allow the Storage agent to read from on-prem S3 and ...
30 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

support volume groups in ownership groups

When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
30 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Storage scale performance statistics for SMB shares

EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

lsvdisk command has vdisk_UID as parameter option

Have the ability to isolate an lsvdisk based upon the vdisk_UID without the need to include -filtervalue. As it currently stands in the documentation you can use object_id and object_name to get the specifics of a vdisk, the proposal I am making i...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

ibm.storage_virtualize.ibm_svcinfo_command module to have filtervalue options available for use

The ability to have the filtervalue option available would enable searching through lsvdisk to be a much more efficient when it comes to utilising the Ansible Collection. It would reduce the dependency on having to handle the large output from an ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

lowering the permissions to view access logs

User permission role set to "VIEW LOG" will to give user access to all LOGS.It will not be able to see "FAILED LOGIN". Only SUPERUSER can see this type of entries. That permissions are to height to check logs only, especially in third party script...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

File list limited for 1000 lines using restore node commnad

Hi team, we are using restore node NODE_NAME /FS FILELIST=FILE:/list_files_in_HEX.txt nametype=HEXadecimal. We are restoring data from NAS node. Customer is using France Diacritics in DIR and File names which impact filler on NAS side. Filler is u...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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