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Database impossible to Backup and migrate to other platforms

Before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX, my client did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect. However, IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems. Additional...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Functionality already exists

Incorporate Azure MFA

The MFA feature in the Flashsystem series requires one to setup either an IBM or a Duo Security solution which is costly and redundant as most companies today have Azure MFA at their disposal. So it would be very nice if the Flashsystem in the fut...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

Add Optional Timeout Value for AoS Enablement

The TSSC home screen has a button that allows a user to Start or Stop AoS. This functionality could benefit from allowing an optional timeout value that would specify the maximum amount of time AoS can remain enabled. This is useful because allowi...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 1 Functionality already exists

Log failed commands in auditlog or syslog

We are increasingly working with applications that "talk" to the SVC (and FlashSystems). In case of problems, we try to find out which commands these applications used.Commands that have failed are not logged, while this can be important informati...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

modify behavior of ldap authentication cache expiration

Currently ldap authentication cache expiration timeouts can be set via commandline:e.g.:chldap -authcacheminutes 60would set the authentication cache to be refreshed every hour. This is a fixed timer that starts to count when user logs in and woul...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 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

Monitoring quota usage per fileset (not inodes, capacity usage)

Hi team, we found a gap in quota monitoring of spectrum scale filesets, we have the capability to monitor inode usage per-fileset, but not quota consumption in terms of capacity. Becasuse of that we urgently need a feature that could alert us when...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Allowing to mapping CES address to fixed interface

The current design is alis CES ip to one of interface or the interface has the fixed ip in the same subnet. This is not flexibile and will wast of fixed ip. Customer hope to support static CES IP mapping that can assign CES IP to dedicated etherne...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 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

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

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