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Fusion Licensing - IBM License service

Large telco customer would needs to use IBM License service service which will be used by all Cloud pak and other iBM OpenShift based license. Fusion has 4 key capabilities which are part of license VPC of worker node Primary storage (TB) bacukp s...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

TAPETOOLS should be part of z/OS

TAPETOOLS is currently shipped as a set of stand alone utilities. These need to be updated on a regular basis. The process of white washing Internet downloads and introducing them to the z/OS environment is getting very restrictive at some custome...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Display freeze time for Remote Copy relationships in Storage Insights and allow thresholds to be set for freeze time so alerts can be sent when freeze time is more than a certain number of minutes out of sync

This idea is being submitted to let IBM know that they need to find a way to add alert definitions in Storage Insights that would allow administrators to monitor the freeze time for Remote Copy groups and change/set the threshold so administrators...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

Ability to upgrade CSM via the DS8000 GUI or embedded CLI

Having CSM integrated onto the DS8000 HMCs has been very helpful for a number of clients. Currently, however, it is only possible for a client to upgrade CSM to a desired level via the external DSCLI. For most clients that use CSM on the HMC, this...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

SPP - Option for Non-memory Snapshot

By default SPP always takes a memory snapshot.Although SPP has the option to disable VSS (Quiesced Snapshot), it doesn not have the option to disable a memory snapshot.We NEED the option to disable memory snapshot for some VMs which cannot be snap...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Operation Center Client Deployment - not able to schedule client updates if a single server failed receiving update packages

In the OC in the client deployment section you can schedule the client updates, however this scheduling part is only "unlocked" if the pushing of client packages to all spoke servers has run error free for all servers.So the command "REFRESH PKG S...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Global Exclude List

We are after a Global Exclude list of VMs that we can use to exclude VMs across ALL SLA Policies in SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers， for example rocky linux
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to Storage Insights so that you can see the performance of a volume compared to throttles that are set.

Understanding how a volume is performing compared to throttles set on it is very important. Currently, throttles are not represented in Storage Insights. I want to be able to see how much of a QoS a volume is using. I also want to be able to set a...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Single pane of glass for FlashSystem management

Many A9000/R (even still XIV) customers are migrating to Spectrum Virtualize. EVERY one of my customers that has done that asks for the equivalent of HyperScale Manager for FlashSystems. It is a huge whole in the management process of FlashSystems...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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