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Turn Off Spectrum Virtualize Pop-ups

Spectrum Virtualize GUI shows pop-up messages from the right side of the GUI window. Pop-ups are for remote support, call home, code recommendations and feedback. These pop-ups hide other buttons or functionality and require some type of intervent...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

LDAP outage should not prevent DSMSERV startup

If LDAP is unreachable dsmserv refuses to start. This should NOT be a requirement. This inserts additional delay and troubleshooting into network outages.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

TSM4VE - Easier include/exclude of harddisks for a VM and integration of that in graphical interfaces

Include/Exclude for VM harddisks is made within client option file only, hence the direct usage and visibility in any graphical interface is not given. The user cannot choose within the graphical interfaces which harddisks to include (i.e. during ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

(MUFG)Request for improvement of the problems that it takes long time to insert the large number of new logical volumes in MI

We request a one-time upper limit relaxation, the current limit is up to only 10,000 at a time, and improvement for processing speed of tape logical volume insertion from MI. If it is difficult to improve the processing time, we first request to r...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Delivered

Enhance mmkeyserv to make configs possible with CA signed Rest-API Certs.

Currently to define the mmkeyserv rkm Config in an CA-Trusted GKLM Environment where the https/Rest-API Certs are CA signed the configuration are not possibly. This is a security flow and can not accepted in the area of cybercrime. The current pos...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Remove SP server startup dependency on availability of LDAP URL and implement recurring probing of LDAP access

Server does not restart when unable to inialize LDAP directory service. Moreover it seems that no recurring probing of LDAP access is currently factored into the SP server code, therefor no alerting will take place in case of loss/failed LDAP conn...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Hot spare node

Customers need more redundancy in case of a node failure, and since the SVC hardware is reasonable priced having 1 or 2 more nodes is an option.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Storage Insights Improvements for Support Contract Reporting

We would like to see improvements in how Maintenance Contracts are being reported in Storage Insights in order to better keep an eye on and be proactive about renewals and coverage issues.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

GUI backup and restore option of library configuration

The only option to save (and eventually restore) the library configuration database today is to use the TS4500 CLI. It is Java based and Java is not allowed in some client installations because of security concerns. Moreover, in a TS7700 environme...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Customer wants to extend the time between node upgrades with the SVC

Customer had multiple servers go down during their last upgrade. They would like the time between node upgrades to be tunable instead of the standard 30 minutes in length. Ideally they feel that if they had more time they could complete the valida...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

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