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GUI should be quick to load overview pages, and defer the output of slow commands

F.ex. on the GUI "pools" page, we're experiencing several minute loading time on large systems. It should not be acceptable that it takes this long to load any of the pages, particularly not the initial overview pages. Rather the GUI should only s...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level.

We have a large RFP where the proposed file system must have user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level. We have a strong competition from DDN so ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus hardware snapshot support

Spectrum Protect Plus currently do not support hardware snapshots as the current Spectrum Protect Snapshot a.k.a. FCM software does - and current Spectrum CDM has no option to recover (flash-revert) the production copy from a snapshot.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

include ABRT packages in EMS repos

It is common for support to ask for a core or ABRT report as part of in depth troubleshooting of particularly nasty Scale System component issues. Currently those ABRT packages are not included in the repositories packaged with the EMS node and it...
27 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

To have a possiblity to disable certain ciphers on BA

As one of our customers is operating an SP environment, they are regularly check with PEN-tests. And each year the find the BA to be possible vulnerable to CVE-2013-0169 (LUCKY13) as there are CBC ciphers available on the "schemode=prompted port" ...
28 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

support volume groups in ownership groups

When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Shortening Log Collection time and reduce Log size to speed up service and support for more efficiency

TS4500 Log Collection is running more then 40 minutes and the Log size is greater than 750 MB. To speed up service and support time, we have to reduca tho log colletion duration and also the size of the log files. The idea ist to speed up and shor...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

SSO login for CLI

For a while now, there's MFA SSO support for the Storage Virtualize GUI. However to comply with our internal security policy, we also need to enable this for CLI access to our storage systems. Please add CLI login support to the authentication met...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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