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Modify 'Protected and Unprotected VMs' report to allow display of only unprotected VM

The current report shows both protected and unprotected VMs in report and allow to hide Unprotected VM. However there is no report which can display only unprotected VM. Business Justification: We have thousands of VMs part of protection and their...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Is Spectrum Control available for a cluster installation

We need for Spectrum Control 5.4.6 cluster support for Windows 2019 for an cluster failover event. Currently we are using 2 SC Instances on Windows 2012 Its planned to do a server refresh and we want to know, if SC could be installed in a clustere...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Add Support for Hardware Load Balancers like the F5

We are a large bank and a large enterprise customer. Not all Open-Source software is supported. HA-Proxy is one of those not supported. But we still need to Load balance the GPFS GUI. This is a requirement when hosting Scale in OCP. We need to pla...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Certificate key authentication supported for SFTP log transfers

Customer would like to use an SSL Public Key option for the configured SFTP connection in the 'Settings--Support--Logs--Log Collection--Log Collection Configuration--Log Destination' Log Collection Configuration page. There is an SSL/TLS certifica...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 1 Submitted

DS8000 WUI LDAP enhancements

We would like to see anonymous binding capability for LDAP with Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD). Today MSAD LDAP requires a bind ID and Password, which need to be rotated frequently - doing so on 100+ HMCs is not practical and it would also requ...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Cancel sess node=XXXXXX

Add extra functionality to the existing command: Cancel session nodename=XXXXX Cancel sess whereplatform=XXXXXX Perhaps a preview option could als be added. This functionality could be a huge improvement in Enterprise Environments. Sometimes you w...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

HTTP banner in DSMCAD Spectrum Protect client

When scanning open ports of servers, the port 1581 (default, or configured by "httpport" in dsm.opt) answers with the string "Server: TSM_HTTP/0.1".This might be a security issue, as an attacker could see, which software is (TSM / Spectrum Protect...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block. A data transfer being done by one customer does work fast but the other user can't even ls specifics directories.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale CES SMB-NFS Separation

The today CES Protocoll implementation of the accestype file NFS and SMB are implementetd together. This seems to be a Problem if we want to separatly maintain the component. If we stop smb we see already issues in nfs. This is for us not really a...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect REST API : Further Development

The Spectrum Protect Client Management Service allows REST API calls to start a backup, restore, update BA client configs, restart daemons, and so on. It is a great initiative. And we need something like that. More than ever now that the BA webage...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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