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LDAP Group Authorization for ADMIN users

IBM Storage Protect is actually the only product in our environment that is not allowing to map LDAP groups to specific authorization levels. How should this work?You would for example define on the SP server in dsmserv.opt the LDAP url including ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for nested LDAP groups and a test LDAP function

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups and enable a test function for LDAP setup
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester

Restore functionality – Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fusion HCI internal Scale Storage as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF

Enable so the internal Scale Storage in Fusion HCI can be used as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF. Using ODF on top of redundancy in Scale causes very low storage utilization without real incremental redundancy benefits. Some kind of st...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Allow more than 20 threshold rules in the GUI (mmhealth)

You can only create a maximum of 20 threshold rules, either through the Spectrum Scale GUI or directly with the mmhealth command. This limit should be increased (e.g. to a minimum of 50)
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

SVC 2145-DH8 Use IMM port for remote access/control

SVC Nodes are commonly installed in multiple Data Centers, not all Data Centers have a support personnel at all times, and in certain circumstances the SVC Nodes require physical access in order to Reboot the Nodes. Currently the IMM Port of the S...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Host outages during SVC Codeupgrade: Missing Warning for misconfiguration and missing SVC check – command

All backend-paths of each mdisk needs to have the same Host-LUN-ID (SCSI-ID). In case of different IDs on different paths of the same mdisk, SVC does accept this without a warning. But during a SVC Code-Upgrade, this leads to a offline-SVC-pool-si...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control integration into VMware

Hi Team We are looking for a permanent solution to an issue that we are having at a customer below. Our customer is looking for deep integration between Spectrum Control Advanced Edition/VSC and VMware. Currently, Spectrum Control probes VMware on...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Support for SQL on Linux

SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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