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Provide IBM Storage Insights collectors to run in zCX

The Itau bank is one of largest GDPS and DS8K user and the Storage Insights is a strategic product to monitor the DASD performance. We have the license and we are starting the implementation of ZCX. Nowadays the Storage Insights is using Windows S...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Storage Insights Pro Support for HDS Ops Center

Hitachi is advising customers to switch to Ops Center. SI Pro does not support Ops Center, only Command Suite. SI Pro must incorporate Ops Center in order to be compatible with Hitachi devices.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add Ansible for SLES at Scale Toolkit packaging

As known, Ansible is required for Scale Toolkit. The installation of Ansible is done through pip3 install and it connects to a repository to install Ansible. Some clients, special in financial sector, have restrictions to make their servers with e...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Test Restore Periodically

Restore customer data Periodically without needing of system outage or stand by system.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Db2admin member of local administrators group

Due to security policy the db2admin user should not be member of the local administrators group in Windows. The DB2 service can run as a service but the Spectrum Protect Server needs to be a member of the local admin group.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP - Auto-delete Old SPP System Logs from "/opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/archives"

After generating a SPP System Log:sudo /opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/logcollectThe files are stores here:"/opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/archives" There is currently no automated process that removes old System Logs. We recently had an issue with SPP where...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) lslicense information to Spectrum Control

Add a report to Spectrum Control which gives an overview of the required licenses for all monitored SVC clusters. (SVC CLI lslicense output). The current SCU license overview (settings->licensing) are the licenses needed for Spectrum Control wh...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale AFM support for GCP

AFM file/object copy to GCP. Better: use AFM to TIER to GCP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable Admin with Policy Privilege to "upd no sessionsec=trans" (currently fails with ANR2035E)

Admin user has been granted „Policy Privilege: WIN“ and can execute "unlock node" and "update node" for resetting password.BUT upd node fails with "ANR2035E UPDATE NODE: Administrator XYZ is not authorized to issue this command." when resetting fo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add read MB/s metric for Vc and Vcc

The original IDEA/RFE was this one "Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s" https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSI-I-51 Destage metrics were added (Fast-Write Writes Vc and Vcc), but stage/read MB/s metrics were not added for Vc an...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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