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Security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool

I would like to request a security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool to support authentication credentials to be read from a file on disk of the workstation. Today, typical TS4500 CLI usage is something like this:# java -jar /opt/TS4500/TS4500CLI...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Future consideration

Allow more than 20 threshold rules in the GUI (mmhealth)

You can only create a maximum of 20 threshold rules, either through the Spectrum Scale GUI or directly with the mmhealth command. This limit should be increased (e.g. to a minimum of 50)
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Support for SQL on Linux

SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Make Dynamic Volume Expansion without losing our previous SGC backups

We will implement SafeGuardedCopy on our new DS8980F. We want to be able to make Dynamic Volume Expansion without losing our previous SGC backups. Can this be available in a near future ? We are aware of the following : (Extract from IBM Copy Ser...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Support for nested LDAP groups and a test LDAP function

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups and enable a test function for LDAP setup
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester

Restore functionality – Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Customer access to download and manipulate logfiles

Since customer is allowed to do a code load it is evident that the log files should not contain any errors. Since the logfiles can only be downloaded from call home support and manipulated we have an issue when the customer initiated code load fails.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Provide description of "Indexing new scan data" on Spectrum Discover web UI

We can see "Indexing new scan data" in the web interface under Data Connections -> Scan history. Some scans show "Indexing new scan data" for days and we don't see any progress. Is it possible to display all steps ("Scanning NFS mount", "Indexi...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control integration into VMware

Hi Team We are looking for a permanent solution to an issue that we are having at a customer below. Our customer is looking for deep integration between Spectrum Control Advanced Edition/VSC and VMware. Currently, Spectrum Control probes VMware on...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Host outages during SVC Codeupgrade: Missing Warning for misconfiguration and missing SVC check – command

All backend-paths of each mdisk needs to have the same Host-LUN-ID (SCSI-ID). In case of different IDs on different paths of the same mdisk, SVC does accept this without a warning. But during a SVC Code-Upgrade, this leads to a offline-SVC-pool-si...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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