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CBR3750I message issued during service prep mode, because of service prep mode

When a TS7700 cluster is put in service prep mode for maintenance (RCL, for example), it ignores that it is in service prep mode and continues to issue CBR3750I message as if it was not. Some of those CBR messages generate false positive ticket an...
2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Space Management (HSM) for ppc (power) Linux

With the evolution of Spectrum Scale (esp. ESS) running on our ppc Hardware on Linux it is required to have this capability to reduce the number of objects to manage (i.e. an extra AIX or x86 system to handle the HSM migration out of ESS or other ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Additional parameter for repairvdiskcopy

Additional parameter "-stoplba lba" for "repairvdiskcopy" command needed: -stoplba lba(Optional) Specifies the last logical block address (LBA) on which to finish the command. The LBA must be specified in hex, with a 0x prefix.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Only Report Status on Relevant Paths from Storage Systems Panel

In our environment, we have IP to z/OS connectivity enabled. As such, we have ZOS:NATIVE connections and IP to z/OS connections to other LPARs. For the ZOS:NATIVE connections, it is not possible for the Standby server to connect via FICON to the s...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus native application-aware snapshot/recovery support of Google Cloud Platform VMs

Support for SPP to snapshot/recover Google Cloud VMs via API (like VMware VM support). Need capability of installing both the SPP server and vSnap in GCP.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

ESS call home for disk failures should include the RG\disk name in the IBM case title

In ESS call home for disk failures, when a case is created the case title is very generic and reports an error number 'Error Code: DSK00001'. Problem The challenge is that when disks fail, it is difficult to relate a specific disk failure to an IB...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Data collector incorporate in DS8K

Similar to CSM, Storage Insight Data collector can be built in the DS8K HMC by default for customer. This will allow the customer to easily consume the Storage Insight Service. This will increase Storage Insight usage and that will benefit the fut...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration