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    In the Grid Storage overview GUI you can see which systems are healthy or not. Give a clue why systems are not healthy

    The Connectivity health can be healthy or not. If not, tell me why this is not healthy. I assume the grid knows why a storage system has unhealthy connectivity. The system will communicate this with the grid somehow. It saves time to determine why...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    AOS Control in the TS7700 MI

    Please make the AOS Stop/Start/Restart Controls available in the TS7700 MI. This should be much like it is in the DS8K GUI.
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Expedited inode scan / faster disk replacement for descOnly disks with filesystem that have large inode counts

    For Scale filesystems with very large inode counts, requesting an improvement to reduce/consolidate the inode scan requirements when replacing the descOnly disks (128M).
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

    We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Support In-Transit Encryption at Filesystem Level for Remote FS

    Current versions of Scale only allows In-transit encryption (ciphers) at cluster level which restricts users from choosing which filesystem to enable in-transit encryption and which filesystem to use authonly mode. A new feature in the future rele...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Unify the naming of settings for LDAP configuration

    Different IBM Storage product (TS7700/TS4500/TSSC/…) are using LDAP but they are naming the different settings within the configuration different. My suggestion is to have this standardize across the various products.
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    We would like to have a way to export/import LDAP settings cross different IBM Storage systms.

    Customer approached me asking why TS4500/TSSC/TS7700/DS8000 all are using separate ways to configure LDAP. They are requesting a way to configure one system and then copy these settings to the others. IBM in Tucson develop all, so this should be p...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

    After a HyperSwap, the command "Start H2->H1" (Start H1->H2 respectively) will fail if there a active Concurrent Copy Sessions on secondaries (former primaries). CSM will show error IWNR2108E RC 0F13. We know IBM recommends to eliminate any ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Planned for future release

    The run fix procedure schould check for all equal errors in one step

    ease of use, faster checks. If we update the backend systems behind a SVC or flash system the recovery procedure does a cleanup only for one item at a time, so if you updated a bunch of systems behind a SVC, you have a minimum of two events in the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

    Improve Data Protect alert behaviors and information

    Defender Data Protect alerts currently trigger when the conditions set are met. They do not trigger when conditions are close to being met, nor do they provide details on where they currently are before being triggered. This idea is intended to im...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

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