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maxruntime parameter does not honor admin schedules with wait=yes

The maxruntime parameter could not be used for administrative schedules where processes with wait=yes are started. APAR IT21651 documents the behavior.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

optimize output in the microcode "health check" panel in the DSGUI

We moved from 89.32.40.0 to 89.33.35.0 using the internal microcode function of the DS GUI.Everything works fine, but we think that the UX and GUI output of the "System Health Check" could be visualy better. So you can better understand what you s...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

AFM Azure Blob direct support

For data exchange, data access from multiple sites and also access of data from within Azure we would like to use Spectrum Scale AFM connected to a Azure blob similar as connected to S3 storage. Currently this will require a S3 / Azure converter l...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future 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...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

SPP: Filter for job type in job history

It would be desirable to filter by "job type" in the job history window.For example: only filter for backup or replication jobs.This could be solved by just using a dropdown menu. Currently only a search for the job name is possible - unfortunatel...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SP move data out of CLOUD containers

Once TSM/SP data ends up in a CLOUD pool, there is no way to every move it anywhere else. We should be able to move data out of a cloud pool. MOVE NODADATA might be relevant, but would only work if you could specify source and destination pools. T...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Logging for when a host exceeds its Throttling limit

Currently when a host exceeds it's Throttling limit there is no logging to inform us a host has hit its limit. With old XIV's and the A9K arrays, whenever a server hits its QOS limit, we would get an Event and could then investigate why a server w...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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