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    Add an 'absolute' logout for DS8 GUI and CLI

    Along with the idle timeout on the DS8 GUI, further security restrictions are requiring us to have an 'absolute' logout time. Even if session is NOT idle a login could not be longer than 12 hours (for example). This should be included on the DS8 G...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    DS8K Configuration menu should not allow the IPv4 and Gateway IP field to use the same address

    DS8K Configuration menu should not allow the IPv4 and Gateway IP field to use the same address. This creates the potential for a DS8K HMC to assume the IP address of a gateway/router on the network.
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    use CSM to create volumes and replication from end to end

    CSM has the knowledge of the box and replication. We could imagine defining policy in CSM with replication type etc... (MM, MGM ...) and when we define new volumes, let CSM create LVOLS on all DS8k and create replication link defined in the policy...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add ability to specify cluster as target for TSM4VE restores

    Make it possible to specify ESXi cluster and storage cluster names when restoring VM in TSM4VE
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Control integration into VMware

    Hi Team We are looking for a permanent solution to an issue that we are having at a customer below. Our customer is looking for deep integration between Spectrum Control Advanced Edition/VSC and VMware. Currently, Spectrum Control probes VMware on...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

    Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

    Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Increase SMB Share Limit in Scale Cluster

    The current Limitations for Spectrum Scale SMB are listed as follows: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.5/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r05.doc/bl1ins_smbclients.htm "Spectrum Scale can host a maximum of 1000 SMB shares" needs t...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM4VE exclude hdisks from snapshot

    On busy systems, snapshotting and consolidating disks with high change rate result in using considerable ressources and may create unwanted downtimes.Excluding the disks from backup still results in snapshots beeing taken. The request is to have t...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Storage Scale System BXi support in version 4 latest mid 2026

    Customer invested heavily in BXi Network technology. Customer needs support and performance measurements with BXi to include further Storage Scale Systems in large HPC Deals
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    REST api for dsmadmc

    We are doing some "automated" tasks in Spectrum Protect and we are currently doing it by calling dsmadmc.exe (and args). But starting such an process for every request is rather time consuming - and heavy cpu/memory on the Windows machine (having ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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