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Increase the number of maximum concurrent open SSH sessions per system

Increase the number of maximum oncurrent open SSH sessions per system, to larger values, say 64. The current limit is 32. Reference:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1005424
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Cancel multiple client sessions

Having a run to a server with many many client sessions, how can many being canceled by one single command?
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow the customers to use SSO / SAML with their domain

As our company security request, it will be better that we can have the function that support SSO/SAML with our domain to login the IBM Insights.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Intellectual disk drive updates

If the system has multiple types of disks and a user tries to upgrade all of them, some disks may fail to update. This causes the whole upgrade process to stop and leave all the remaining disks (even upgradable) at an older version. In this case a...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

IBM SVC- request ability in V7.x GUI to create multi-volume (plus symbol) capability like in pre-V7.x GUI.

Pre-V7.x GUI, when creating New Volume there existed an ability to enter a (Volume Name, Size, # of Volumes) and ability to click on (plus symbol) to add new line for entering additional New Volumes. Appears that starting in V7.1.0.x GUI, that whe...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Protocol replication needs the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing

Protocol replication has “all-or-nothing” failover/failback process. Cannot test DR for new exports. We need the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing With “AFM-based DR” (which the protocols cluster DR is based on), and indeed fo...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add path status in Overview Screen Page

In IBM Copy Service Manager It's possible add path status in Overview Screen Page?? We monitoring Overview page for potential issues of session, server connection, but we don't see path status, that is visible only in a specific screen
almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

TDMF Message for SOFT FENCE

System: TDMF for z/OS Actor: User needing change in a message. TDMF (Transparent Data Migration Facility) is a product that allows the customer to non-disruptively relocate or migrate data within the data center, in periods of full production and ...
almost 9 years ago in TDMF z/OS 3 Planned for future release

SPP - Change Message "CTGGA2192" from Error to Warning

Change Message "CTGGA2192: No volumes were replicated because there were no new snapshots. Please ensure that the backup completed successfully and the frequency of the Replication is less than the backup frequency." from Error to Warning. If ther...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release