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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.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 ScG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity

When a SG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity, have the DS8K automatically increase the Virtual Capacity Multiplier with 1 for that volume.The increase by 1 should be sufficient I think, I do not think this should be configurable. However, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Drive reporting for SI

IBM sometimes releases FLASHes for drive firmware issues. Although the Advisor should catch this, there isn't a simple way to generate reports for all drives known to SI. The only method for doing this appears to be to create a drive report for ea...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Provide more details for Mail alert notifications for messages such as, IWNR1963W One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed.

These alert notifications did not have any information regarding what paths and for which storage subsystems were affected during the path loss. When the CSM console logs were checked there were also no messages for this event and all paths were g...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

IBM SPP: Allow VADP/VSNAP deployment with SSH keys instead of username/password

Hello, VADP and VSNAP Deployment require that you enter a OS username and password for ssh communication. Username and password authentication is not very secure therefore any sane/larger customer will only allow ssh-keys for authentication. Pleas...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Adding SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES for SpectrumScale

We need SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES.SLES has a market share of 99% in HANA on Power.HANA will be the only database for SAP.To use SpectrumScale in HANA environments we need SLES Support for smb.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Show various command line options and/or help options for dsmserv using -h or --help flag

The proposal is provide -h or --help option for storage protect server command line. Storage Protect Server can be started with various options. Currently the user has to go through SP documentation to know these options, as the command line does ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Update device password through the REST API

Per Security policy the passwords on our Brocade switches need to be changed every 90 days. With more than 200 Switches in the environment, its not feasible to change the password through an User Interface, whereby we have automated the password c...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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