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    SFP warning and info alerts should be elevated to higher status in system monitoring

    We have had 2 SEV1 incidents at our org due to SFP's malfunctioning but not failing. When SFP's begin showing lower voltage or abnormal TX or RX specs, these need to be elevated to be a system health issue for IBM Brocade Storage switches. This is...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

    Use proxy server for accessing IBM updates

    To enhance security, and keep access to internet to a minimum, a proxy server should be used to obtain fixes and updates. This will allow for automatic updates for systems that are more locked down than usual.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

    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...
    about 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 5 Not under consideration

    Encryption: Switching between Local and External Encryption

    Many customers today, like this one, start with Local encryption. Also as this is cheaper, and less effort, than purchasing GKLM. And Local is often initially enough, for data-at-rest encryption. But later on they hear about IFCES (IBM Fibre Chann...
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Add Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) lslicense information to Spectrum Control

    Add a report to Spectrum Control which gives an overview of the required licenses for all monitored SVC clusters. (SVC CLI lslicense output). The current SCU license overview (settings->licensing) are the licenses needed for Spectrum Control wh...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

    Allow Windows Server to re-export Spectrum Scale mount and serve SMB/CIFS

    Allow a Windows NSD client (server licensed) to share the Spectrum Scale mount it has from a Windows NSD Server.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Detection of unbalanced metrics for spectrum virtualize machine

    example 1In spectrum virtualize family , IO group is made of two nodes.Usually the metrics of those two nodes should be about similar, if two nodes (of the same IO group) are showing very different value for same metric this may be the sign for a ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    access to the object is denied backup error does not fail a snapdiff backup.

    Snapdiff backup shows completed successfully even when encountering ANS4007E access to the object is denied. This error should result if a backup failure. If access denied shows up at directory/volume level then no data may be backed up hence defe...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    add security to dscli commands

    we want to create personalized security profile by selecting only some dscli commands (and equivalence with the GUI) to restrict permission to a community.
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Please add the connected servername to the dsmadmc window title

    If you have multiple TSM Administrative Commandline windows open you can easily loose track on which is which. It would be very useful if the servername one connects to is added to the title of the dsmadmc window.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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