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Ability to Schedule report

Ability to define scheduling of Reports in SPP 10.1.2
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Fusion HCI - container placement optimisation through the use of taints and tolerations

IBM Storage Fusion HCI is an appliance based configuration which has a set of standard best practices. some of these practices include not deploying standard container workloads on special nodes (AFM / GPU) however by default Fusion HCI has no log...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Delivered

DS8000 Volume groups can't be manage in GUI

IBM DS8000 Storage server use Volume Groups for managing connectivity to Open servers (including IBMi). In the new GUI Volume Groups not presented.Old (previous) GUI removed from V9.So only way to manage VG with CLI. It will be nice to insert VG m...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Mechanism on devices to collect logs and send to IBM support

Problem description: Mechanism on every device to automatically collect logs and send to IBM support.Current workaround: Gather logs and upload to ecurep or direct to PMR
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Performance Data Change

On version 8.5.2 and newer, there is a change to the internal performance XML statistics file. Some third party tools that parse the iostats XML files will need to be updated.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Password complexity and expiration

For the local user IDs on SVC, it would be good to have password properties that increased the complexity of the password as well as being able to include a time event that expires the password.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

ESS and Spectrum Scale version numbers don't line up

As it stands today, ESS version numbers do not match the version of Spectrum Scale installed on the ESS. This is confusing. As an example, ESS version 5.3 is Scale version 5.0.3.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Enhance mmnfs config list output to state that NFS_KRB5 is active or not

We hit the Problem with mmnfs config change cmd issue (294665) that erased the NFS_KRB5 Section without indication of unhealty events or Info's in the mmnfs config list output. The idea here we request a addition in the output listing of mmnfs con...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

[BDA] Hadoop transparency, Support for native Ranger encryption

Moving in to container based workloads we see many use cases for SCALE integration in to Hadoop. At the moment we are missing one critical functionality and that is the use of object based encryption trough Hortonworks Ranger with Scale Transparen...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Plus Logging

Having only the GUI to see which backups are currently running or having only the Reports after a successful backup, I'd appreciate to get the Information displayed as well using the REST API or commandline.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

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