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SVC STAT Tool should show volume and pool names

Currently the IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool does show volume IDs and pool ID instead of human readable names, In addition those IDs are shown in hex format which is nowhere used in the SVC CLI or GUI. The tools seems to be created/targeted at DS80...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Delivered

256K tape blocksize support for NDMP backups for NetApp

We are doing NDMP backups of NetApp filer to TSM Server on IBM Protectier Storage (as VTL). We are doing LANFree backups using DATAMover to storage pool on Protectier. The storage pool is of type "NetApp Dump" "BACKUP NODE" TSM server command is u...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

AFM NFSv4 Support

We are seeing more and more mandates from customers in fed and commercial that require support for NFSv4 in order for products to be authorized onto the enclave. This include NIST mandates for federal customers and commercial compliance regulation...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

TLS Certificate import to Trustore for Call Home and RCL Download

Clients more often are using IPS (Intrusion Prevention System ) / Deep Packet Inspection on their proxy or firewalls and demand the possibility to import own RootCA and Intermediate CA as the firewalls injecting their own certificates which result...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 3 Delivered

designate smtp server by name and not only ip address

Customer is forced to use ip addressing for the smtp server in SVC and in V9000. Customer has requested that we modify this to allow server name instead of just the ip address so that in case the customer changes the ip address of their smtp serve...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Remote Replication RPO Monitoring, Reporting and Alerting

Majority of the storage environments managed by GTS include systems running Spectrum Virtualize. And remote replication is most commonly used functionality to provide DR/BC capabilities. Not tracking RPO would have a significant on the disaster re...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Enable mmapplypolicy function via REST-API

Client has one self-service REST-API based application developed for providing SMB/NFS shares to their clients. They have different storage pools, and their clients can define which tier they want the data to be stored, and also select over time t...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

RFE 74: Storwize support for DNS names rather than IP addresses

There are a number of network services e.g NTP SNMP, SMTP and LDAP which have to be configured with IP addresses.This is becoming an administrative overhead in large organisations where DNS is the source of the truth for all the other network serv...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Requesting Windows Server 2022 support for Spectrum Control

Requesting Spectrum Control compatibility with Windows Server 2022.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Delivered

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