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    Increase in the number of components analyzed simultaneously

    Hello Development team. I would like to suggest an improvement in the Spectrum Control. When some situation that needs a deeper analysis happens, like a performance problem, it is useful to see the behavior of the components. At this point, the Sp...
    4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    have Spectrum Control as an appliance (ova package)

    The uprade process to upgrade Spectrum Control to a newer version is too complex and fails all the time. Please consider deploying it as an appliance. An OVA package provides a pre-configured, optimized environment, reducing setup time from hours ...
    11 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

    According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

    IBM Spectrum Control - Alerts - Ability to Schedule Non-triggering Time Windows

    Customers have backup windows during which a lot of alerts are triggered. Too many alerts causes customers to ignore all the alerts altogether even those that are triggerred during normal business hours. It would be great if we had the capability ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

    SELinux enable on RHEL for Spectrum Control server

    SELinux enable on RHEL server for Spectrum Control application. Currently Spectrum Control is working on SELinux disabled RHEL servers.
    about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    CLI access from Spectrum

    Currently, we can launch gui for the storage devices from spectrum control. It would also be useful to launch cli from here as well.
    3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

    When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

    Update Cognos Analytics to a more current version

    At this moment with Spectrum Control 5.4.12.x the Cognos Analytics version offered via Passport Advantage is still version 11.2.1.Latest fixes for this Cognos version are from January 2022. Our security department is demanding that we fix a number...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    VMware VM I/O Performance data should be available

    Today TPC/VSC offers agentless integration with VMware ESX, however no performance data, other than the SAN volumes or ports that the ESX server is using are recorded. I would like to see TPC record basic virtual machine I/O performance data for V...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Future consideration

    Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

    One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

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