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SAML / SSO Authentication

Support SAML to further enhance security and ease of management in environments managing hundreds of devices, or requiring enhanced security mandates.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Allow Spectrum Scale Adds and Deletes via List with individual node errors

mmaddnode/mmdelnode current behavior when submitting a "NodeFile" is if one node is in the cluster or fails to add/delete for any reason then the whole list fails. This behavior seems to be the case with most of the mm commands that accept -N <...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 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...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

View how much capacity is being used and compression rates

I would like to know the over all amount of capacity that a host is consuming at the backend from Storage Insights. Today with the compresstimator being built into SVC I would to see this functionality also added to to SI Pro where I can monitor t...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 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
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Using SFP+ in the 25Gb HBAs on Spectrum Virtualize

25GbE supports both RDMA protocols and vanilla iSCSI. These don't use SFP+, however, they use SFP28, so you will need to ensure they have a switch that can connect at 25GbE AND has the connection support for SFP28. the 25Gb SFPs provided by IBM do...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

API to update device passwords for Spectrum Virt and other devices

Please add an endpoint to the API to update device passwords for Spectrum Virtualize (and perhaps other devices.) The updateHMC endpoint only works for DS8000. Our environment includes FS9k's in multiple availability zones across multiple regions....
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

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