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support for LTO8 drives

support for LTO8 tape drives
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Health Check Script or program

a health check script or program to run against the SVC and generate a report which has predetermined thresholds for hardware and software errors which is reported on and can be reviewed locally to determine if issues are repeating or growing
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Ability to script Oracle TDP config with tdpoconf

Scripting capabilities is needed for tdpoconf in order to be able to do a "silent" (no user-interaction) installation of the Oracle TDP (without having to use utilities like expect or similar).The problem has been observed on linux, but might also...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Security logging for IBM Storage (TS7700, TS4500, FS9150, DS8K)

Need the ability to capture all LOGON/LOGOFF and update-related functions within each of the Storage solutions to provide compliance with our internal Security Event Logging Standards (ISELS). This will require the ability to externalize these log...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Move TSM DB2 tempspace to a separate filesystem

TSM can crash unexpectedly. The DB2 logs indicated that the tempspace ran out of space due to heavy SQL transaction, suspected at the time to be a custom data collection script for TSM monitoring, although not confirmed. This can now be reproduced...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

2TB VHDX size limit in TDP4VE for hyperV

2TB VHDX size limit in TDP4VE for hyperV
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Spectrum Scale request to be able to lock down daemon listening on a specific IP

System: Latest Spectrum Scale versions Actor: Spectrum Scale users/Security teams Spectrum Scale is used by a wide variety of users in numerous industries. When specifically thinking of network and node security, port security is paramount in high...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Reporting features to be added in Operations center

As of now, Operation center is only capable of sending the health check summary report to the mentioned email. It would be great, if it can be enhanced to send few customized reports like (backup status in last 24 Hours, Media offsiting) etc, etc
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Delivered

Scale version on ESS lags behind critical fixes

The version of Scale on ESS lags behind releases of Scale, exposing customers to critical defects.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

restart ganesha NFS service on failure

when nfs-ganesha goes down (eg. when it is killed), there are no attempts to restart it again. As far as I know, i don't see such a possibility to do this using CES. We see ganesha is down in the log files, and failover to another node goes smooth...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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