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Make the Operations Center Server Activity display user-configurable

Customer would like to see the Operations Center Server Details...Summary tab "Activity over 24 Hours" be more configurable. Specifically, it would be helpful the Activity period could be lengthened and the mouse hover show the actual date and time.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

SCDM should not do a df on every datafile during an Oracle Backup

During an Oracle Backup job, the agent code does a df on every single datafile to see what filesystem it resides on to determine which luns to snapshot. On a large database with many datafiles (1000s) this takes a long time. It would be much more ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Disable Simultaneous sessions of same user on ESS GUI

Same user is able to open multiple sessions on ESS GUI with different browsers /different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user. This is one of the security observations from the customer's security auditor...
12 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Understanding of spectrum Discover tables

As part of the use of CP4D it is important for Airbus to know the exact use of each of the tables that we could or should 'integrate' or not into CP4D/Cognos for example. This request aims to identify, for example, tables presenting data that has ...
12 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger. Today user can define alert in SI and can get notification via e-mail Then user need to use other external tool to automatically trigger a next action to alleviate the issue. This RFE is to have t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

BA client for debian update startscript

In Debian Linux the rc.dsmcad startscript does not work for tw reassons:1)In Debian Linux default runlevel per default is 2 (can be between 2 and 5.) the dsmcad start sript rc.dsmcad is not setup to start on runlevel 2cat rc.dsmcad#!/bin/sh## (C) ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Enhance RAS to add a mmhealth threshold update Funktion in mmhealth framework

Currently to change a parameter in the mmhealth thresholds this is only possible with delete and add this same rule. This is error-prone to change only on parameter.The support enhance the servicability to justify one parameter in the threshold ru...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Error/warning on degraded hosts

Currently when a host is in degraded state, the events are not showing any warning or error. Hence there is a chance that these degraded hosts goes unnoticed. So I suggest to have a warning/error to be reported in the events for any host went into...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

TS7760T with a problematic PVOL requires SSR intervention to go ROR. Request is to change this behavior to mitigate interve

The problem to be discussed:a) Reclaim of a non-exported, not-properly-ejected, physically damaged tape should have been easier to do in a multi-cluster grid, in the scenario DTNA experienced.b) Reclaim of offsite tapes should not have been impact...
almost 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Individual Creation of SLA/User/Identity (tenant based account)

Dear IBM,Our customer Requires Ability to create his own SLA policies and assign VM's/DB's/Filesystems in it. Ability to create his own users and assign him role of limited capabilityAbility to create his own identities (for inventory of VM's most...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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