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Allow longer volume names - use shorter mapping names - in storage protect snapshot

Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controller production source vol...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Under review

NTP updates needed

Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

"Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Under review

Once a code upgrade begins, we should block Customers DS GUI logins with a "banner" stating code upgrade is in "progress".

Clients, especially new ones who are not familiar with DS8000 tend to get upset when they are attempting to access the DS GUI during a microcode upgrade and find that they cannot. This will alleviate a great deal of frustration and uncertainly for...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a Fla...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

VSNAP uses NFS in v.3 in VM test restore. How can we force VSNAP to use NFS in v.4

It will improve security, performance improvements, improved stability and scalability. NFS is in v.4 due to this ensure VM restores and other operations are performed in the most efficient and secure manner possible.
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

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