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certify with cisco NX-OS 8.4 (2a)

actually the nx-os Version of the cisco MDS 9700 8.4(2a) is not certify with spectrum control .. but this version is not the last .. and we need to have this version certify to able to have some support on it !
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Spectrum Control not capturing real time hardware failures from DS8800

we noticed our installed spectrum control isn't capturing real time failures from our enrolled IBM DS8k storage systems. cable and drive failures are not captured. kindly help optimize this so we can easily monitor our storages from the spectrum c...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Values also in "extents" in Spectrum Control capacity reports

Actually, the capacity reports provided by Spectrum Control have values only expressed in GiB. Since they are normally also available in extents (for example in the DS8000) it would be useful to have them also with this unit of measurement, adding...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Under review

DS8000 Submitting a Test Call Home Case

This would be useful to make sure a call home case gets submitted to IBM Support. The test call home feature is good, but would like it to be more comprehensive. This shows that its able to make a connection and is able to create a case after let'...
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

GUI : capacity information consistency

Different information/ mismatch between ‘used capacity’ and ‘total capacity’. Monitoring -> Files -> Filesets -> view details -> used capacity Due to the fact, that two file copies are made on the filesystem on ESS storage cluster , th...
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Increase Safeguarded Copy Backup Capacity per volume beyond the current limit of 14.6 TiB for CKD volumes

When using maximum sized CKD EAV (Extended Address) volumes on the DS8K it would be useful to to have more than 14.6TiB of safeguarded volume capacity available. If these large volumes experience high change rates they can easily use up all of the...
8 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Enhance REST API Export a log file with keyword: latest

it would be useful to extend the GET /v1/logs/<filename>/export command so that you could enter a 'latest'-Tag as filename for example and then the ‘most recent - completed’ log is exported. GET /v1/logs/latest/export -> Exports the most ...
9 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Under review

DS8000 should send SNMP message (SNM038I) in EBCDIC format, instead of ASCII.

DS8000 family is an "enterprise-class storage for IBM Z". ASCII is not the standard mainframe encoding format. Converting from ASCII to character is not an easy task. We automate SNM038I via IBM System Automation. To interprete SNM038I (in ASCII f...
16 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

A seamless support for custom namespace

Currently, even though Fusion supports custom namespace, the procedure requires manual steps. For example, FusionServiceDefinition has to be patched to reflect the correct custom namespace.
20 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Lustre allows 8182 users to be added to the ACL of a single file for R/W access, the latest Scale release (v5.5.2.x) only allows 1913 because a hidden ACL file is limited to 15KB.

Users in large environments like Sanger (UK Biomedical research lab) can continue to implement their in-house user access policies resulting in $10 million dollar in sales for IBM. Assuming there are 4000 users created via script (useradd was used...
22 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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