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Provide a direct download (one time or multi-use) link for Data Collector

Downloading the Data collector on a workstation and then uploading it to a Linux/AIX/Windows machine is clunky and in some cases slow. Providing a direct link to use native (CURL/WGET/etc.) mechanisms for download directly on the end system would ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Add NDMP Plugin Functionality for Spectrum Scale File System Backup

Since Spectrum Scale Cluster 5.1.1 containing ESS3000 nodes can hold billions of files in a file system, its a must feature to come up with NDMP plugin in the Spectrum Scale for backup purpose to speed up the backup performance. Backing up files d...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Option to select the GUI language to override browser config

Provide the ability of selecting the GUI language rather to override the browser configuration if desired.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

FlashDrive - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Server command to change/migrate node config from one TSM instance/server to another

When running a TSM environment with multiple servers and TSM instances on each server - and not always having direct access on all clients - it will be useful if a TSM administrator could issue a server command to tell a client to change its confi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

LISTING/PREVIEW of ALL tapes required for a RETRIEVE or a RESTORE

Retrieve and Restore function should have preview option to list the volumes which will be required for the Restore or Retrieve;
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control - Add a capacity planning modeling function

IBM Spectrum Control uses capacity information to provide an estimated zero capacity date. I would request that this same information be utilized to allow customers to perform capacity planning modeling. Current workaround: Perform this manually u...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

Enclosure-loss protection on Storwize V7000

Please implement contra-rotating SAS cabling for connections from Controller enclosure to drive enclosures. This gives additional failure protection and avoids enclosure interdependencies caused by "daisy-chain" connections. DS4000 / DS5000 custom...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Don't send alerts for tape drives cleaning in the library that it automatically has cleaned.

We got this alerts. "Job 521576/QSYS/QTAPARB Device NDCMLB02 needs to be cleaned. Cause . . . . . : The tape drive read/write heads have become dirty and need to be cleaned. Recovery . . . : Clean drive NDCMLB02 by following recommended cleaning...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Hierarchical fileset quotas option

Add an option to mmcrfileset and/or mmchfileset where you can specify whether or not you want the fileset quota usage of all child filesets to "roll up" and be applied to quotas of any/all of their parent filesets. This probably makes the most sen...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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