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IBM Spectrum Control

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IBM Spectrum Control: View Easy Tier Load Setting

Need the ability to see what the Easy Tier Load value is for SVC mdsisk.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Include VOLSER information in Cognos Reporting for Spectrum Control

On version 5.3.x and previous versions of Spectrum Control, VOLSER data for DS8000 arrays was present in Cognos using the Storage Volume Name. In 5.4.x, the output of Storage Volume Name is different (using the CKD volume name); the VOLSER informa...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Consider automatic column width in tables based on actual data

When a tabular data is first viewed within Spectrum Control, Sometimes the column is much too narrow to display the actual data and sometimes many columns are too narrow and time must be invested adjusting the column widths to make the data readab...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Support for proxy for Spectrum Control

Support SC (Spectrum Control) work thru Proxy. Lot of times i
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

AIX v7.3 support for IBM Spectrum Control Server

Add AIX v7.3 to the list of OSs supported by IBM Spectrum Control Server.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

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

Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names

Automatically adjust agentless server names to match SVC host names.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Support for EMC ISLON

My customer uses Control to manager all devices and they adquire an EMC Islon that has all user files. They requested our support to homologate monitoring for this storage under Control
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release