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AIX v7.3 support for IBM Spectrum Control Server

Add AIX v7.3 to the list of OSs supported by IBM Spectrum Control Server.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Increased number of concurrent SSH connections and allow us to manage open ssh connections

Allow an increased number of available ssh sessions into an SVC and allow us to terminate or timeout hung or idle connections.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center

HiI try to generate Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center but there is no monthly option available. Currently available options are either daily or weekly only. Would you please provide e-fix for the monthly option? My operati...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Network Virtualization Fusion

In telecommunications industry we cannot use standard virtualization with Fusion HCI. This will open us a new market segment
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

Snapdiff-Accounts on NetApp SVMs

For SnapDiff usage on NetApp-clusters a cluster-level-user with suitable permissions is needed. NetApp file-services are provided by "storage virtual machines" (SVMs), which have it's own user management. We would prefer to use SVM-level-SnapDiff ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to suppress ANS1115W ( File skipped due to exclude ) message

SITUATION1. TSM allows the exclusion of files and folders from its backup regime.2. At present, TSM will produce error messages for files/filders skipped due to the configuration.3. The messages are classed as 'warning' even though this is clearly...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Build 3390 with a track size 64K or larger.

Currently 3390 has a track size around 54Kb. It would be great to have a track 64Kb to write larger records in VSAM. We have a need in our Medical Record System stores several procedure codes and we are always running out of space in the record. I...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Manual Installation SPP Plus Client

File System Inventory Failing to complete over the WAN. According to support this could due the low network bandwidth between the SPP Server and the remote client. I ask a procedure to manually install the client on the remote server and Support a...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

support RHEL6, SLES11 and Debian in Scale 5.0

Add support for RHEL6, Debian and SLES11 to Scale 5.0.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication status

Currently Spectrum Protect only show in the reports the status of a VM in compliance with replication policy but a person can not tell the % outstanding to replicate and or the % completed this makes reporting on the environment status much harder...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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