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To fix the the Container storagepool mismatch utilization issue

Protect: IBM Spectrum Protect (Server)Environment: Banking Issue statement: Backups started failing with 'out of space' issue even-though the Container stgpool utilization was just showing 61%. When checked from 'show sdpool' we could see there wa...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

GUI Audit Log Improvements

Streamline GUI Audit logging. It's a little noisy which makes it a challenge to seek out legitimate events. There are also basic critical events/actions that should be included which appear to be missing.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale VMWare ESX V7 Support

Hallo,we plan to migrate our SAS-Grid Cluster to a VMWare based Plattform. These Platform is installed with ESX Version 7.0 U2. But currently scale support only V6.x.This gap stop our Migrationsplans currently. With the introduction ov Version 7 E...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Client Supend/Maintenance Mode

Add the possibility to put a GPFS client node in a suspend mode or maintenance mode.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Logging of details for files deleted by dsmc delete on Spectrum Protect client

If on a client node an administrator deletes files using the dsmc delete arch or dsmc delete back there is no detailed logging of the deleted files neither on the ISP server nor on the ISP client. You only have the number of deleted files in the a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

File Indexing - Change default SSH port 22

For file indexing restore the SSH service must be running on port 22 on the server. Please add an ability to change default SSH port 22 to other.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make IP Quorum App run as a service by default when it's installed.

Today the IP Quorum App is not installed as a service in the Operating Systems, so when the host where it resides is rebooted the client has to manually start the IP Quorum app again. If this is made as a service automatically during the install t...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Need better support to use specific CSM server IP address/hostname

Currently CSM does not have a documented way to define a specific IP address or hostname to be used for the CSM service. I found following potential places where this can be configured, but there could be other places as well: - ../wlp/usr/servers...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center Security Exposure IBM-OC Administrator

IBM-OC-XXXXXX is an exposure and should refuse logins or updates like SERVER_CONSOLE. The message in the web access to OC should also occur with login to admin client, with any attempt to change the password, or any attempt to modify or use this u...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

DS8XXXX Improve How Fibre Channel Port Location is Displayed in GUI

Under a previous RFE it was requested to add in the physical location of an IO Port to the New DS8 GUI in the Fibre Channel Ports view:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=121398 In the old GUI when we went to c...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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