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Certificate used on port 1751

DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Globally switch on /off client instrumentation trace in Server Node definition or Client Option Set

due to the fact of several security vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-8916) we need the ability to switch the new default value enableinstrumentation from on to off globally. This can ether be done with a client option in the client option set or throug a...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

To include support of remote CES Object Clusters

Currently, The Official Spectrum Scale Documentation states the following main points.• This setup(Remote Clusters) cannot be used for Object or iSCSI services.• The storage cluster must not have any protocol nodes (CES must be disabled). https://...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 and VEHSTATS tool - ORDERALL member

Today, for each new version of VEHSTATS tool, the customer have to manually customize a new ORDERALL member which is time consuming (ORDERALL member is around 1200 lines today), fastidious, with a high risk of errors.The customer wish to have the ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operation Centre export/import custom Report

Spectrum Protect Operations Manager keeps the custom report in the hub server in a scratch table. When moving the hub to another server there is no easy way of exporting and importing into another hub server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support Red Hat IPA for mmuserauth

Red Hat IPA / FreeIPA is an identity and authentication source similar to Active Directory. It has LDAP for user information, and kerberos for authentication. It can integrate with Active Directory through trust and replication, and will then cont...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

more volumes on DS8000

Currently, only 65280 volumes are possible in DS8000, due to the LSS/LCU concept. When in a FlashCopy relation, this is cut in half practically.Increase this somehow so that well more (e.g. over 200,000) volumes are possible.
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Client needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.

Customer's Capacity plan Team needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Migration process hang waiting volumes in use

Storagepools with file type devclass are used on a large scale in this client. the problem occurs when the migration process starts and some session has a mounted .bfs file (backup or restore). The migration process remains stuck until the session...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

No comma's in session and process numbers

For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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