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"DATABASE_MEMORY like" option in profile CLONING section

It should be possible to clone SAP/DB2 environment to another environment without requiring the same amount of memory just because of the check/recovery phase of the cloning process.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Delivered

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

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

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

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

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.
about 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.
almost 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

Make IBM block storage arrays provide the "port symbolic name" to HBAAPI clients

Other vendors' storage arrays populate this data with something useful that can be a vital hint for system administrators. Not providing it kind of bites. If this RFE is accepted, I'll put one in for the AIX team to enhance "fcstat" to report on it.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 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

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