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dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

Add AIX support to Storage Defender

Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
6 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

Storage Scale performance is extremely sensitive to network and backend latency, there must be a mechanism to monitor those critical KPI

It would help both system administrator and IBM Support to be able to quickly identify the key issue and be able to isolate the bottleneck to address critical performance issues.
15 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Needs more information

Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

Disallow to run a SGC recover when R1 devices are already in use (by another recover or by a practise H3)

In our configuration R1 devices for SafeGuardedCopy are the same as H3 devices for practice. When we flash I3 devices on H3 devices for practise and then we run a recover backup for SGC the task failed with a x0FAE error code.But one time the H3 d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Needs more information

CSM scheduledtask based on calendar day

We need scheduling at specific calendar day/timeSelecting single or multiple day
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

insert more than two media categories/types for logical volumes

Today there are only two media categories available for defining logical volumes in an IBM VTS - Media Type Cartidge System Tape and Enhanced Cartridge. But you can define the volumes as 400MB, 800MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 25GB in the library. Since w...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Automatic Performance reports of Fiber channel IO

it would be great to have a way of automating performance reports of a ds8k through storage insights. for example during an LCP Push/ pull be able to have an automated report which gets created and can be sent to an email address. we pull these ma...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

Global Copy pacing

We would like to be able to pace Global Copy so that we can make sure it does not cause any performance degradation on target DS8. So far, only a poke is available, not manageable from client. Suggestion is: a setting, editable through DSCLI, whic...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

SFP warning and info alerts should be elevated to higher status in system monitoring

We have had 2 SEV1 incidents at our org due to SFP's malfunctioning but not failing. When SFP's begin showing lower voltage or abnormal TX or RX specs, these need to be elevated to be a system health issue for IBM Brocade Storage switches. This is...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

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