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    Save failed commands ran on cluster to be viewed in audit logs with output in Blue Diamond

    * SME Martin Dzhagarov suggested this , so creating this RFE * - Where were supposed to look for failed commands.This is Blue Diamond and I don't think that it show up in the audit log- Failed commands do not show up in the Audit log. Can the cust...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Support LibFabrics

    As more high speed networks are available (IB,OmniPath, Etc ROCE, other RDMA capable networks) The Open Fabrics org has defined a more generic interface then libverbs (which is very network specific) to enable make it easier to take advantage of n...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    KMPI v2 protocoll support for TS4300

    Our TS4300 Tape Library for LTO supports 2 ext. key managers for tape encryption: the IBM GKLM (before SKLM) and 3rd party key managers with KMIP communication. The supported KMIP protocoll version is v1.2. Unfortunately this protocoll version is ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    GPFS client support larger memory address space

    Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    SP4VE File recovery : reports user whom initiated file restore

    We are using SP4VE in a full service mode so user can do restore on its own through the many interfaces available. However, security policies enforce us to track who's doing what. Thus, we need to have the information on who is requesting/initiati...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    DS8K HMCs should recommend regular power recycles

    DS8K should recommend regular maintenance procedures for HMC power cycles to prevent hangs. This could be yearly, bi-yearly, etc., as long as it was a time period sufficient to prevent hangs due to unforeseen circumstances. This would prevent HMCs...
    about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    View VM DataStore Size when restoring VM

    I would like the ability to see the size of the DataStore I am restoring to from within the Spectrum Protect Plus VM restore GUI. Right now if I want to restore to a datastore I have to open VMWARE to make sure there is enough space available on t...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Externalize Netview/GDPS Response Messages

    In the current design the only facility to diagnose problems encountered in the Netview and GDPS Command/Response sequences is to repeat the migration with the SNAP option specified. This would be unnecessary if the messages were written to the JO...
    over 5 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Monthly daily SPP backup report

    For a given month (or period) provide daily SPP backup status (success, failed, undone). Provides single view to compute the backup SLA commonly used in outsourcing engagement.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    IBM TS4300 Tape Automation

    Could you please assist us with an issue we're experiencing with our IBM TS4300? When my team needs to load or eject tapes, the process has become very time-consuming. Is it possible to automate this process? We would like to select multiple tapes...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

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