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Remote Support Disconnect button

In the Support Assistance screen on FlashSystem our customer would like to have a disconnect button. We understand we can do this with the command line but the customer feels a button to disconnect in the GUI would be more helpful. On a call with ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Enhance RAS to add a mmhealth threshold update Funktion in mmhealth framework

Currently to change a parameter in the mmhealth thresholds this is only possible with delete and add this same rule. This is error-prone to change only on parameter.The support enhance the servicability to justify one parameter in the threshold ru...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Error/warning on degraded hosts

Currently when a host is in degraded state, the events are not showing any warning or error. Hence there is a chance that these degraded hosts goes unnoticed. So I suggest to have a warning/error to be reported in the events for any host went into...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SCDM should not do a df on every datafile during an Oracle Backup

During an Oracle Backup job, the agent code does a df on every single datafile to see what filesystem it resides on to determine which luns to snapshot. On a large database with many datafiles (1000s) this takes a long time. It would be much more ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

About Alarms

The client's filesystem space is 93% used gpfs sent an alarm pool-data_high_error through gui-snmp trip on October 20, which was notified to the client in time through the client's alarm platform, but the current administrator did not deal with it...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger. Today user can define alert in SI and can get notification via e-mail Then user need to use other external tool to automatically trigger a next action to alleviate the issue. This RFE is to have t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Improve ACL management in Spectrum Scale

Currently, ACL management in Scale is overly difficult. For instance, the mmputacl command requires the entire ACL to be reapplied, rather than just having the ability to add, delete, or modify existing entries. Additionally, inheritance does not ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Data Retention - restrict interaction with node data to node user

We use Spectrum Protect whit Data Retention enabled to store archive data.nobody besides the application should be able to delete single files that are stored in spectrum protect. We work with event based retention. If the event is set from the ap...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

default custom ID required on Spectrum Protect Server Install

Currently a new built of TSM server 8.1 does not create the "admin/admin" ID like it was done with 5.5 versions. THis creates a problem with build automation where it requires a extra step to register a ID adding to build time.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration