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Spectrum Virtualize: Enhance MCStore Connectivity/Capability

SVC's supports Cloud Object storage pools for FlashCopy Targets in 7.8. The current method for accessing cloud object storage is via the management port on the config node. This creates a problem with scalability. The request is to enhance this, p...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Protect Stgpool target to cloud container

We need protect stgpool to work with cloud containers as a target pool.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block. A data transfer being done by one customer does work fast but the other user can't even ls specifics directories.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 WUI LDAP enhancements

We would like to see anonymous binding capability for LDAP with Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD). Today MSAD LDAP requires a bind ID and Password, which need to be rotated frequently - doing so on 100+ HMCs is not practical and it would also requ...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

DS8910F the names of the download files should be customized. As a customer, for example, we would like to have our location

DS8910F .the names of the download files should be customized. As a customer, for example, we would like to have our location designation included in the file name.This is important for regulatory reasons.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Archive Automatic Recovery Function

FUJIFILM dternity development and customer support team spends much time checking and recovering when a warning is issued from tape drive. They create Service Request every time for those warnings, so automation recovery function can save time for...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale CES SMB-NFS Separation

The today CES Protocoll implementation of the accestype file NFS and SMB are implementetd together. This seems to be a Problem if we want to separatly maintain the component. If we stop smb we see already issues in nfs. This is for us not really a...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Cancel sess node=XXXXXX

Add extra functionality to the existing command: Cancel session nodename=XXXXX Cancel sess whereplatform=XXXXXX Perhaps a preview option could als be added. This functionality could be a huge improvement in Enterprise Environments. Sometimes you w...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Move filespace to another node

It would be helpful to be able to change the retention of a VM after it has been deleted, without having to restore, rebind, then re-delete. Ideally, we would be able to add a target node name to RENAME FILESPACE, or a new command for MOVE FILESPA...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect REST API : Further Development

The Spectrum Protect Client Management Service allows REST API calls to start a backup, restore, update BA client configs, restart daemons, and so on. It is a great initiative. And we need something like that. More than ever now that the BA webage...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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