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add option for the tgtread status

We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
1 day ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

add affected storage system / path for the message IWNR1963W

The message IWNR1963W is: One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed. Sometime there are micro network issue that makes the path have a punctual error. As we have several storage system in ou...
about 7 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

DS8k - WWPN/WWNN for Fibre channel Ports

According to the PLOGI (Port Login) and PRLI (Process Login) are used to establish connections between devices in a SAN (Storage Area Network).That means source and target WWNPN/WWNN are known. However, the details for the logged in links is only ...
2 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

improve the "eeadm file state" performance

The customer uses' eeadm file state -q FILENAME' to check the file status to ensure that the file has been migrated to tape. Currently, the time required for this command cannot meet the business's needs, which will result in longer waiting times ...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
8 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Under review

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review
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mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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