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Role Change For Spectrum Control

Currently, there are only two roles in Spectrum Control: Administrator and Monitor. Administrator can do everything in Spectrum Control. Monitors can do nothing, not even create reports. We would like the monitor role to be expanded for that purpo...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

Provide additional protection when using the decommission command against Oracle or DB2 nodes.

Spectrum Protect Oracle and DB2 client decommission can lead to immediate data expiration and data loss. Due to the copygroup settings required for Oracle and DB2, the risk of using the decommission node command can inadvertently lead to data loss...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Feature Enhancement to support multiple infiniband partition key

Increase security against eavesdropping by limiting the access to resources using infiniband partition so cross talk and malicious attacks can be eliminate
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow user to display "volume full name" and "volume short name" at his conveniance using existing table twistie

In huges banking Z/os csm implamentation, we can deal with many DS8000 having each more than 100 000 volumes. Having this ability will avoid fingerchecks when usin CSM GUI to perform troubleshooting tasks when things are not work as expected.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a state that will prevent the tape from being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range of volsers from the TMC.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow wildcard patterns for node names in tiering rules

Support the usage of wildcard pattern for node names in storage tiering rules.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

extend number of independent filesets

For a file system used in a large research facility with a capacity beyond 20 PB, we would like to generate at least 5000 independent filesets for projects being active in processing and generating data. We expect initially a demand for 5000 indep...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Spectrum Control

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Spectrum Control. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted