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Operation Center Reports - Server Groups and comma separated list of servers

Operation Center custom reports should allow selecting more than one server in "Configure Report", either by comma-separated list, or by server groups.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Enable customer provided SSL certificate in OC

Many compagnies don't allow self signed certificate anymore. Operation Center doesn't offer a solution to use CA signed certificate. It would be really usefull to allow customer to set it up.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Allow tape drive to be part of more than one logical library

I would like to have the possibility to assign one tape drive in a TS4300 to more than one logical library. Most tape libraries currently are not over-utilized, meaning there are a lot free time slots where drives are not in use. Having multiple (...
about 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Not under consideration

Host across ownership group

Customer replaced A9000 with FS9500 and runs into this issue: on SpVirt, the host object is part of the ownership group (tenant domain) (<> A9 did not consider hosts as part of the 'tenancy domain'). There is a manual workaround (chghostcl c...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

RPO Reporting Enhancement in Tape Gui

Today in the 7700 Tape GUI.. The current display of the COPY QUEUE contains a combined sum of ALL of the "deferred" and "Family" virtual volumes queued up --- that need to be copied. My customer "Humana" would very much like: 1. Ability to see the...
over 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Tape errors recorded only in Volumes table and not Libvolumes table

TSM only records read and write errors in the volumes table, which is reset every time a volume is returned to scratch.It would be advantageous for errors to also be recorded against the library volumes entry, which would not be reset when volumes...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

ESS GL6s RG failover take more than 5 minutes

When customer does final ESS GL6s acceptance test, they power off one of ESS I/O node, find that RG failover take more than 5 minutes which is longer than expected.Customer want to know what's the major bottle neck and enhance the whole RG failove...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Is a defect

Fs Permission denined still Backup reporting as completed with this error TS004208374

we are facing backup issue, we have NFS volumes backups. one of the volume backup not happening, and schedules showing backup got completed. Please find the below error. 08/20/2020 03:30:10 ANS4007E Error processing '/netapp/bocfshanamc36-sapds-sv...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

De-couple CES NFS and SMB services

From support: You can stop NFS service without stop SMB. But if you want stop SMB service, you need stop NFS first. We need to stop all access to AFM collections but still need to serve non-AFM NFS to our cluster. Easiest would be to only shutdown...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Client Encryption with IBM Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Protect backup encryption using include.Encrypt for Spectrum Scale client is not working due to unrecognized format "Include Encrypt". Error:mmbackup does not recognize this include rule format: Include Encrypt. The tsbackup33 perl script...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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