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Increase Spectrum Scale SMB ACL Security Features (host allow, host deny)

Problem: Client wants to increase the security of Samba by implementing host-based access control, in addition to access control by user and password. Solution: To implement the configuration in the Protocol Node SMB service, it would be necessary...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base (& SVC)

A Customer with a very large SVC installation wants to have vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base for his SVC environment: Handling & administration without many components
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

display FC Port RX/TX power metrics in CLI and/or GUI (instead of livedump only)

When troubleshooting bad behaving (storage-) ports or FC links in a SAN environment, the corresponding RX/TX power/attenuation metrics of each SFP at both ends of the FC link are a very good indicator to determine which of the typical 3 involved c...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

security issue with ssh key authentication

To allow dynamic volume creation during backup operations, you must enable remote access to the storage system with private and public Secure Shell (SSH) keys. But we do not allow access to a storage system without entering a password. Otherways i...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

Multi-cluster Hyperswap for Spectrum Virtualize

Current Hyperswap implementation exists within a single Spectrum Virtualize cluster. An outage of the entire cluster is possible, thereby offering a lesser degree of availability
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Allow full Box or multiple Subsystem selections in ESE and SGC Sizer sessions

When ESEsizer or SGCsizer sessions are configured, typically they are configured for a large amount of LSS/LCUs if not even for all volumes configured on the system. However, the Copy Set selection wizard does not allow to proceed, when only a sys...
8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

SV PBR support for CSM

To push or force customers to move from Standard GM o GMCV to the new PBR where the CSM is exstesively implemented, it is mandatory that CSM will support the PBR as weel soon.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Ability to expand existing mdisk by adding a single disk

Allow an existing mdisk to be expanded.An existing mdisk RAID 5/6 or DRAID would be able to be expanded by adding a single disk.An existing mdisk RAID 10 would be able to be expanded by adding a pair of disks.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Utilise RACF PassTickets for Host Connections from CSM on DS8K HMC to z/OS system.

Current and only available method for Host connection from the CSM residing on the DS8K HMC to the z/OS system requires authentication via a normal RACF defined userid and password on z/OS. However, customer password expiration policies dictate a ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Enable partial scans of directories including subdirectories instead of whole shares

A scan in Spectrum Discover currently scans the whole share. Given the following example scenario: We have a large share with 100.000+ of files Some directories are rather static whereas other directories see daily or weekly changes In order to sp...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

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