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Spectrum Control not capturing real time hardware failures from DS8800

we noticed our installed spectrum control isn't capturing real time failures from our enrolled IBM DS8k storage systems. cable and drive failures are not captured. kindly help optimize this so we can easily monitor our storages from the spectrum c...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

FreeBSD support for TSM Client

FreeBSD support for TSM Client
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Modification of smb.conf to prevent vulnerability

The customer has to set 'server signing=mandatory' in smb.conf to prevent vulnerability.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/887429http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731957.aspxhttp://www.nessus.org/u?74b80723http://www.samba.org/samba...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum CDM Support for CSV with SQL

Request if for support SQL Servers configured with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). With Copy Data Management
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

No Copy option on Metro Mirror w/P session

In DS8K environments using ESE volumes we would like to have the No Copy option for Metro Mirror with practice sessions as already available on GM w/P session type.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

gpfsperf script improvements

Though gpfsperf is a sample script, it needs improvements so that the customer local file does not get filled and cause gpfs issues: - Indicate in the read me file that the local tmp file needs to large enough for the filesize to be tested - Indic...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Better estimation on tape capacity

At the moment TSM does not do any true estimation or ongoing estimation on the capacity of a tape.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

High redundancy SAS connection between expansion ecnlosure

The current design in SAS chain can't tolerate the middle of expansion enclosure fail.The middle of expansion enclosure failed will lead to pool offline.Customer hope IBM can provide high redundancy SAS chain to tolerate any of expansion enclosure...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Require key auth SSH only for Storage Insights, SpectrumScale

System: IBM Spectrum Control Storage InsightsActor: Organisation needing new auth-method enabled to be able to consume platform UQ has evolved data governance, capacity management and growth metrics as a key import factor in project planning and f...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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