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DS8000 needs to allow customer access to detailed debugging logs for cloud related activities.

Currently network activity and error states between the DS8000 and cloud porividers, and also between DS8000 and z/OS, is not available to view. The only log available is the audit log which does not provide detail on how the DS8000 preceives or h...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Control Probe Execution Scheduling Customization below 24 hours

The Data Collection Schedule or Probe Scheduling does not go below an "Every Day" or 24 hours. I would like to be able to schedule the probe to execute multiple times through out a 24 hour period. Having the capability to customize the schedule to...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Future consideration

Automatic ingest for new tapes

I want to load new tapes into I/O slots and have them automatically moved into available slots based on function (data tape or cleaning tape). Right now, at least one magazine must be fully removed to add new tapes.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Future consideration

qos support dio

qos support dio
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Option to enhance ANR3654W Inventory file expiration when not using replication

When you are using the policies on the target replication server to manage replicated client-node data, you must run expiration processing every 24 hours to allow the target replication server reuse storage pool space that is occupied by expired r...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Change warning message to information message

In TSM for VE 7.1 the warning message "ANS4063W" is triggering an RC 8 return code on the scheduled event. We would like the warning message changed to an information message instead.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

You should be able to configure notification of user password expiration.

A frequent problem I have is that the ESS GUI user accounts expire and I have to get them reset. It would be useful if you could set up e-mail notifications that an account is about to expire. My organization does this .... when my password is wit...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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