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IBM Spectrum Control

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Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Spectrum Control

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Spectrum Control. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

authentication and authorization mechanism for application groups and general groups

Customer is India's Largest MSP and deployed A9000R with Spectrum Control. Customer requires functionalities which is part of Public Cloud Feature.(i) Managing Domains of A9000 (HSM) through Spectrum Control as single Console would help them to ma...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

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

Role Change For Spectrum Control

Currently, there are only two roles in Spectrum Control: Administrator and Monitor. Administrator can do everything in Spectrum Control. Monitors can do nothing, not even create reports. We would like the monitor role to be expanded for that purpo...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 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

Add Spectrum Scale with SSH key in Spectrum Control

Currently Spectrum Scale can be added only with password authorization. Requet is to implement SSH key authorization. Once user password is changed in Spectrum Scale , we lose collecting data until password is changed in Spectrum Control according...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

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

Require an option to update IBM Spectrum Control authentication ID from local / Domain ID to a Domain service ID ( Non Interactive)

We need to have a local user ID (with non expiring and no special character password) to install DB2 and SC. However as per the customer security guidelines we (Infra Support) no longer have rights to use or create local user ID on the Customer Ma...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 7.0 VM

According to the support page, VMware ESX and ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x are supported but not ESXi 7.0. IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platformshttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

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