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lin_tape driver for Ubuntu is outdated, any plans to update in the near future?

lin_tape driver is needed for all IBM LTO tape drives and libraries. We have applications running on Ubuntu and need a current version of the driver. With the current version we are stuck to Ubuntu 20.04 and can't move forward.
8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events

Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events It is my understanding after speaking with IBM that these messages are captured but the system is only designed to send Login / Lo...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

backup stgpool parallelization

I would request to have backup stgpool of a source pool of type=disk parallelized either on a per volume base (as backup stgpool acts if the source pool is of type=file) or on the amount of data to process. When running backup stgpool with a sourc...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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

Average DS8K power consumption command

My customer is interested in monitoring the power consumption of the DS8K. Apparently there's no command or any other easy way to obtain it, so they would like to be able to get the average power consumption with a command in a similar way as they...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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

Add read MB/s metric for Vc and Vcc

The original IDEA/RFE was this one "Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s" https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSI-I-51 Destage metrics were added (Fast-Write Writes Vc and Vcc), but stage/read MB/s metrics were not added for Vc an...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 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

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