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Estimated end time and update process indicator at the first start after update

When the Spectrum Protct Server is updated, db2 table schemas are updated frequently. This can could take a long time to be usable the first time it is started after the update. Unfortunately, you don't see a progress bar and you can't foresee whe...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

RAS Enhancements for Spectrum Scale mmchnsd

In an today 7/24 work area and the use of spectrum scale as a general data plane there are no timeframe to unmount or stop a hole Spectrum scale cluster. If a customer has the requirement to change the nsd-server -nodes because of growing or chang...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

MFA support in Storwize management interface

The mangement web interface of the Storwize storage products urgently needs MFA protection. This can be done supporting RADIUS (which will open for Azure MFA integration) or by some IBM designed SMS-based 2FA.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC/v7000 Online resizing volume with replication, CSM (old TPC-R) can automate this if SVC not able to

Spectrum Virtualize does not support resizing volume with replication. We need to stop replication and resize both production and DR volume and start replication. This can be dynamically resizable if when we extend production volume, SVC/v7000 can...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Add a user timeout option for the user interface of Copy Services Manager

I know that there is not an option to set a user time out for the user interface of CSM. Due to security and audit reasons there is a need to have a user be logged out after a certain idle time. Having the option to set this to maybe 30 minutes or...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system: by default

When removing copy sets from the Safeguarded Copy session, the following options are available: Remove the hardware relationships (option by default) Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system. A customer would like that the “keep”...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Remove log4j error messages on IWNSRV STC CSM address space

Having error when starting STC IWNSRV (Copy Services Manager Address Space) PMR 01563 227 000 advised that these messages can be ignored. Would like to request to have these messages removed permanently. log4j. error message: [err] log4j:ERROR Cou...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Schedule tasks with option to select multiple times

When taking SGC captures using CSM, due to business requirements, we have been asked to take at 4 different times of day. Ex: 1am, 6am, 6pm, 9pm. And it is different for each environment. Current CSM doesnt have such option. Need this option which...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

High density enclosure

Currently the mac number of drives per enclusre is 24 using the 2,5" drives. The DCS3700 can have up to 60 drives per enclose
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

RACF/SDBM Support for LDAP on DS8000

Adding a native LDAP Client on DS8000 including support for RACF/SDBM. We want to use a IBM Directory Server for z/OS with SDBM backend. This is NOT supported even for CSM yet.Having more types for authentication policies to configure LDAP authent...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

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