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    IBM Storage Fusion Data Catalog Service - Integration with LDAP for group discovery

    Today Fusion Data Catalog can only discover user accounts that have a profile in the storage array, which means that accounts that are part of a LDAP group or similar Auth Group, are unable to be identified and grouped together to provide a inform...
    9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Node lock

    Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    SSL CA certificates expiration date monitoring

    We would like to have possibility of monitoring expiration date of SSL signed certificates by Customer CA through IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center and have ability to perform certificate renewal if possible. This would be a huge improvement ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    SI to collect support data from SAN switches

    In a similar way that SpecV support data can be collected using SI SAN switch support data should be possible for Brocade (supportsave) and CISCO (show logging onboard, show tech-support details , show tech-support fcip) SAN switches
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

    Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

    The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

    By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Massive initial load

    During the system configuration phase, it would be useful to be able to do the massive import of providers and identities (whether they are passwords or keyfiles). This would drastically reduce time spent to setup the environment.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

    If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Storage Insights - Add individual server performance stats

    Request for Storage Insights and Spectrum Control to be able to provide individual server performance statistics. Currently SI and SC cannot provide individual performance statistics for a specific host. When you look at the servers, they are show...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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