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Expanded audit logging on TS4300 library

The audit logging from the TS4300 does meet our minimum requirements. The user performing the action is missing along with additional information. Requirements are • Date and time of event (UTC formatted time)• User ID of person performing the act...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Delivered

Allow GREP to work on the CLI

Allow the CLI to work with external tools like GREP without resorting to running it inside python or expect.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add Cluster Definition to v9000 for grouping hosts or increase # of WWNs back to 512

Add Host Cluster Definition to v9000 for grouping hosts or increase # of WWNs per host for large clusters.
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

remove LDAP sizelimit

LDAP has a large group of local users and remote users. Currently, setting up connection to LDAP domain in Discover failed because the known limit: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSY8AC_2.0.4/com.ibm.spectrum.discover.v2r04.doc/config...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

Data user that can only search, not create tags or policies

What need a data user role that is only able to search through metadata, but not able to define any tags (not even characteristic tags) or set up policies.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

RFE 95: Dedup on svc and v7000

Most of storage vendors at this time are able to dedup data on their storage array level, when we will be able to see the dedup running on the svc and v7000, ds8000...etc?
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Account SE

System: Spectrum ScaleRefer the case ID TS002297333. Actor: User needing new feature for Recovery In customer's environment, there are 2 AD servers to have reliability when the one AD server get down.Spectrum scale(SS) can't get the bemefit of it ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Do a DB2 offload backup to TSM with the compress option

Actually the FlashCopy Manager offloads the DB2 backups to TSM in a non compressed mode. With a new option backups could be offloaded in a compressed mode to TSM. (For the offload part only)
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

Empty NFS exports should be shown

When removing the last client from an NFS export in Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.2 the fileset disappears from the list in the GUI and command line. (mmnfs export list). It is then not possible to create a new export as the export still exists in the conf...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Add compression savings information to V7000 / SVC GUI

With the addition of 'Uncompressed Volume Size' to the RACE SDK version 1.88.7 and onwards, this information will be available through RACE API integrated into SVC/V7000 in environments using Real-time Compression capability. Since this informatio...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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