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Public REST API For Storage Insights

Client would like Storage Insights to include a Restful API - similar to the one included in Spectrum Control.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 6 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Plus - Office365 support needed

Office 365 is for 4Q18/1H19 on roadmap, support needed in Q42018customer has Office 365 in place and need local backup, if Protect Plus will not be available in Q418 he will look at CommVault
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Delivered

Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s

Upper cache(Vc) and lower cache(Vcc) read, write, stage, destage and total metrics are currently only displayed in IO/s in Storage Insights. I would like to have the option of seeing this in MB/s as well.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

CSM Primary to automatically reconnect to the standby server after the standby CSM task is recycled or vice/versa Standby reconnects automatically to Primary

Every time one of our CSM started tasks is recycled or if an lpar is IPL'd when the CSM started task comes back up it does NOT reconnect to either the standby or the primray (depending on which CSM task that was shutdow/restarted. The ability of t...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

mmbackup dry-run mode

The mmbackup command is intended for highly-scalable backups of IBM Spectrum Scale (SS) filesystems to one or more IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) servers using the SS policy engine to identify files and the SP client software to send them to SP. The co...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

make applydrivesoftware site-aware

'applydrivesoftware' should honour site-awareness, in particular in HyperSwap topologies and change its default "all in one shot" behaviour to a "paced site by site" one.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Syslog Server Security Enhancement

TS4500 currently support for syslog communication port 514, but port 6514 is required for TLS syslog communication.
about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

ESS Call Home - include monitoring and alerting for all components

Customer uses ESS in a data lake project and wants to make sure that all critical and or redundant components of a ESS System are monitored and reported via callhome in case of a failure. It is essentially that the full redundancy of the system is...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Delivered

Increase the maximum number of consistency groups

We need to support more than 32 consistency groups (idealy double). We have a customer that is using a DS8k in Open (non-Z environement) and this limitation have an impact to current installation but also to any feature DS8k installations . For ex...
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

SVC is not aware of AIX LPM-capable secondary WWPNs, causing all AIX LPM-capable LPARs always seen as Degraded

SVC is currently not capable of differentiating between primary/active and secondary/passive WWPNs of AIX LPM-capable LPARs, causing host objects always to be seen as Degraded. Every virtual fcs adapter of an LPAR has 2 WWPNs, of which one is onli...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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