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Multi session restore from container pool should result in load balanced sessions

Technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993961 documents how to tweak the SDNQRSESSSIZE parameter for multi session restores, however the sessions created are not load balanced. This can result in the restore sessions not being...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

can not use Spectrum protect over san in ERP Database

We was working with AIX os and use Spectrum protect to backup the ERP Database on it using Oversan We moved the production server to SUSE enterprise 15 , but now the problem as in the case that over san is not supported with suse 15, and it is urg...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

Allow custom nsswitch configuration (sssd, LDAP or others) in Spectrum Scale

All clients using Windows system connecting to Scale cluster export services with Kerberos through Samba. Allow user-defined nsswitch configuration for spectrum scale
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Update notification for gui-clients when new version is available

We have a lot of not technically savvy customers (their pcs are not managed by the backup-admins) which are not checking for client updates on their own.I think it would be useful to have a popup notification when an client update is available (as...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Support routed networks for management and fsp networks

ESS documentation states that the FSP and Management networks for a stretched cluster has to be: All networks are flat, single namespace (ESS stretch cluster requirements) which I interpret to mean they must be same subnet, not routed. Practically...
9 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Enable a "read only" system administrator for monitoring purposes

With the introduction of multi factor authentication in Spectrum Protect, administrative access to the software is significantly increased. However, an administrator without MFA must be used for automated monitoring activities. And for the executi...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Storage Insights needs end-to-end topology view

To investigate issues with performance or connectivity, end-to-end views are needed. These would show the server/host fibre connections to the SAN and to the SVC, likewise from SVC to the SAN to the backend storage. Possibly also show SVC host clu...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

More granulary distribution and documentation of roles

We need a more detailled way to manage the rights and roles in our DS8k environment, as we have received the requirement from our Security department to monitor and restrict roles based on Users etc. Expected GUI enhancements and display of which ...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Allow mmrepquota -j to filter fileset(s)

The synopsis of mmrepquota looks like this: Synopsis mmrepquota [-u] [-g] [-e] [-n] [-v] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto} | -Y] {-a | Device:Fileset ...} or mmrepquota-j [-e] [-q] [-n] [-v] [-t] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto}] {-a | Device...} o...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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