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Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD"

Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD".We understand we can intentionally avoid this by recreating the certificate manually,but it will cause the operational load to occur.Our customer want us to make ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Functionality already exists

svc remote copy initialization enhancment (no zero block replication)

On setting up a new remote copy relationship the volumes have to be synchronized initially. On large volumes (1TB and above) that are replicated over a long distance this can multiple days even if the source volume is thin provisioned and hardly u...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance AFM to transfer NFSv4 ACLs from NFS servers like Isilons and store the ACLs correct as GPFS ACLs

Storage Scale and Storage Scale System are great products. But in many cases, another storage is already used and there are no easy ways to migrate PBytes of data - except perhaps with AFM? Almost all installations use e.g. AD integrations and NFS...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Alerting method for the status of data collectors

It would be useful when a data collector has stopped randomly, having an alerting method would allow us to rectify this and get the collector working again.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Functionality already exists

Create customer-viewable "Storage Fusion IBM Service/Support Reference Guide"

The consensus of several IBM Storage Fusion HCI users and IBMers ( including Storage Fusion HCI HW Service Planning) is: A "Storage Fusion HCI / SW Support Reference Guide", similar to the external customer-facing IBM Elastic Storage Server Suppor...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Functionality already exists

Security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool

I would like to request a security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool to support authentication credentials to be read from a file on disk of the workstation. Today, typical TS4500 CLI usage is something like this:# java -jar /opt/TS4500/TS4500CLI...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

Improvement in Data connections filter in UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a filter would be very useful especially because we are already dealing with more than 300 data sources. At the moment it is very cumbersome to f...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Functionality already exists

Reallowing non-root Spectrum Scale connections to Spectrum Discover after ESS security enhancements

Spectrum Scale connections are considered the most effective way to provide metadata from IBM ESS storage to Spectrum Discover since both systems are IBM-based. The following IBM video guide outlines the steps for correctly set up Scale connection...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Functionality already exists

Allow multiple REST sessions per user

We wrote some checks for an external event management system that query several parameters and events from the storage arrays through REST API. As we have multiple checks and a clustered event management infrastructure we sometimes have 2 or more ...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Add command ts4500cli.jar like 'saveMountHistory'

We need to keep track of tapes and their usage. Connecting to the tapelibrary every hour to download mount history is not a practical solution. This can be automated if the cli has a command like saveMountHistory where the last XXX mounts (or mayb...
8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists