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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

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under consideration

Option to update server certificate via command line

Official CA server certificates have to be exchanged every year. There should be a method, other than the GUI, to replace these certificates automatically (via ansible, puppet, etc.). Therefore a command line option (scp) is needed!
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Session recovery via query

CSM is currently designed to stop monitoring underlying replication in an event where certain types of communication failures occur with a subsystem (say after panic/warmstart). It's designed this way to not inadvertently monitor relationships tha...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OSSM support for SPP on Windows platform

We have many customers using SP server on Windows and running SPP in Hyper-V on top of it, we want to get rid of SPP vSnap but we can't do it when using SP server on Windows. And we can't deploy SP on Linux with SPP in KVM because SPP in KVM is no...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to MI TS7700 dual control function

When dual control is enabled, only user modification (for example password) is requested an approval. So it is currently possible to delete all users (admintrator, operator ...) without double control. For security reasons, would it be possible to...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow Spectrum Scale Management API to handle POSIX ACLs

The Spectrum Scale Management API currently can not manage POSIX ACLs, only NFSv4 ACLs. We'd like to be able to manage both kinds of ACLs in our system.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Improve HSM logging to contain filenames

Add a further option to HSMLOGEVENTFLAGS to also log the filenames and recallid for transparent recalls. Currently there's only exobjid and handle. Further extend dsmq toa) to produce machine readable outputb) show extobjid and handle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

need tape disaster recovery ability for Spectrum Protect Plus

Enable Spectrum Protect to be a disaster recovery target for Spectrum Protect Plus.This would provide tape based disaster recovery of Spectrum Protect Plus.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release