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Consider automatic column width in tables based on actual data

When a tabular data is first viewed within Spectrum Control, Sometimes the column is much too narrow to display the actual data and sometimes many columns are too narrow and time must be invested adjusting the column widths to make the data readab...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Integrate recommended Storwize multipath settings into Linux multipath defaults

Update the default multipath settings applied to any 2145 devices attached to a linux system to match the recommended settings advised by IBM IBM Storwize is the only storage type currently in this organisation where the vendor recommended setting...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

VM Restore Types - Change Naming

Change the VM restore naming types – They are confusing mostly because test creates an active clone and clone doesnt! In my opinion Test should be renamed Instant Access (can still create an active clone that you can move into production or cleanu...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Proactive alerting

Proactive alerts setup to alert when CPU, memory, configuration catalog, recovery catalog and file catalog are reaching 75%+ to flag more resources will be required shortly.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale support for routing over infiniband fabrics

The current implementation of Spectrum Scale Infiniband networking, does not allow for or support the allocation of GUID for a bonded interface when working with Mellanox's IP2GID tool which is required for configuring IP's for environment with mu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - password strength

Spectrum Protect has no capability to enforce strong passwords for "local" IDs. Only the length of the password can be specified. The new TLS certificates do give some better security. But I would like to see SP enforce strong passwords, eg 14 ran...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add /var/spool/clientmqueue to logrotate

HMC2 was unable to backup critical data or send emails due to writes to /var were failing with "[No space left on device]". The cause of this was because /var was completely out of inodes as a result of /var/spool/clientmqueue had accumulated over...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Ethernet port failure not generating events within a specific time frame

jeffos (IBM)Oct 04, 2022, 13:43 Hello team, I have discussed this with our SME team and they do agree that since shared technician ports aren't used on the newer platforms, setting a shorter timeout seems sensible. They suggest to submit a Request...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

PCIE hardware - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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