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IBM Spectrum Control

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This is info is related to IBM Spectrum RTM tool license usage. Currently we could only able to monitor Lmstat and RLM license usage via RTM monitoring toll. Here my request is we need to be added all the types of license daemon services and need to be fetch license usages via RTM tool.

Because currently I could not able to add this Lsdyna and Matlab license server information and could not able to fetch this license usage. In case if we add this option, then LSF administrator and uses will get more gain. Currently we could only ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Needs more information

LDAP - implement nested groups support

Enterprise environments that implement LDAP need to support LDAP nested groups.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Control on Red Hat on Power LE

Spectrum Control need to run on these architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (may be other distributions) on Power Little Endian Architectures (RHEL 8.x LE on S9xx L servers, LCxxx servers, AC922 servers). All the stack is from IBM or subsidiaries.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Is Spectrum Control available for a cluster installation

We need for Spectrum Control 5.4.6 cluster support for Windows 2019 for an cluster failover event. Currently we are using 2 SC Instances on Windows 2012 Its planned to do a server refresh and we want to know, if SC could be installed in a clustere...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

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 !
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Capacity Pool Forecasting Report

Customer is looking for some kind of report which they can follow the pool capacity usage with a line of threshold and also a forecasting curve where they can see when the system will reach the full capacity based on predictions of previous usage.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

User credentials(Username/password) visible in plain-text

As per Bank's IS policy/regulatory guidelines , sensitive information like username/password should to encrypted end to end. However in IBM products, SKLM(IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager) and IBM Spectrum Control., these sensitive info...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names

Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Include VOLSER information in Cognos Reporting for Spectrum Control

On version 5.3.x and previous versions of Spectrum Control, VOLSER data for DS8000 arrays was present in Cognos using the Storage Volume Name. In 5.4.x, the output of Storage Volume Name is different (using the CKD volume name); the VOLSER informa...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Physical Usable capacity view in License Compliance Tab

Need the ability to display Physical Usable capacity in the Spectrum Control License Compliance Tab. Many customers that are virtualizing IBM storage behind San Volume Controller are licensed based on "Physical Usable" capacity so their licensed c...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

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