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    Display freeze time for Remote Copy relationships in Storage Insights and allow thresholds to be set for freeze time so alerts can be sent when freeze time is more than a certain number of minutes out of sync

    This idea is being submitted to let IBM know that they need to find a way to add alert definitions in Storage Insights that would allow administrators to monitor the freeze time for Remote Copy groups and change/set the threshold so administrators...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

    SPP Updated Reporting

    Currently the reporting in Spectrum Protect Plus needs a bit of work. Couple of requests i would like to make.1. The ability to have all sizes in the same format. IE everything in bytes, MB,GB,TB etc.The reason for this is then the ability to sort...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Compatibility IBM Storage Protect Server version 8.1.24, running on AIX 7.3 servers.Backup tasks are executed using the NDMP protocol with shared paths from a NAS Isilon OneFS to version 9.7.1.7

    Currently, the client has their backup system based on IBM Storage Protect Server version 8.1.24, running on AIX 7.3 servers.Backup tasks are executed using the NDMP protocol with shared paths from a NAS Isilon OneFS to version 9.7.1.7.It is possi...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    request for status updates on cloudera manager interface when we restart/start/stop services from CLI .

    Hi Team, Documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale-bda?topic=installing-cloudera-data-platform-private-cloud-base-spectrum-scale You need to stop the HDFS Transparency nodes because the Cloudera Manager can only manage HDFS Transpar...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Certificate used on port 1751

    DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Segregation of Duties in Spectrum Protect server

    Client wants to completely segregate the authority to manage accounts in Spectrum Protect from all other Spectrum Protect authorizations.Current setup where a System account is required to manage admin IDs and -rights which includes all other righ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Support Encryption key rotation in Fusion HCI GDP

    The Fusion HCI GDP offers data encryption at rest through the integration with Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM). In accordance with customer's security policy, regular encryption key rotation is required.We suggest adding key rotation into Fu...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    SI to Include IBM DS8XXX Frames in an Inventory View

    We would like to see a way in Storage Insights Pro to see an inventory list of all DS8 frames.Ideally I would like to see an Inventory table which lists out all frames for all the DS8 devices, but at a minimum we should have an Inventory tab withi...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 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.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    CSM certificate processing

    We have just upgraded CSM from 6.2.0 to 6.2.7 and during that upgrade we found that for the host connections none of them would connect due to a TLS handshake issue (case TS003534863 was opened). The issue was that we needed to import the lpars ce...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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