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DS8000 Create Certificate Request permit alternate HMC DNS entry

When using the Create Certificate Signing Request dialogue (for defining HMC addresses), it is only possible to define one HMC DNS host name. Client wants to be able to define both a common name and a subject alternative name for the DNS entry. Ap...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Online Backup/Restore capability for CP4BA(21.0.3) provided by IBM Storage Fusion

Team, We have a Canadian customer(Canada Life) who requires online backup/restore solution for their CP4BA v 21.0.3 running in ARO via IBM Storage Fusion.Below are the applications which client will be deploying via CP4BA v21.0.3.· CPE· CSS· ICN· ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0

Flow diagram between the pods in OpenShift

In order to better understand Spectrum Discover a flow diagram would be very useful. For example: We open the web UI and click on connections:frontend pod -> connmgr -> db2whrest 2. We start a policy via the REST endpoint:policyengine pod -&...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 - Monitoring I/O processes

We have in our production environment a GPFS cluster, version 4.2.3, used by the SAS system in version 9.4 M3The cluster consists of 11 servers, with Linux operating system RedHat 6.7 and 7.3, being 5 physical and 06 virtual.It has a dedicated dec...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

FCM: Central Management GUI

The customer which are using FCM require a central management GUI to manage all FCM environments. In addition, it would be a good idea to integrate the gui with TSM. Also it is interesting because FCM under UNIX platforms don't have any graphical ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Support for Infiiband on Storwize (SVC, V7000 and or V5000)

Infinband usage is being seen in competitors products and need to know when it will be incorporated in the Storwize offering. We're losing deals in DoE labs and NASA to NetApp and Dell because we don't have IB connected storage..
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager VMware In-Guest Support

VMWare In-Guest Support for FCM. Install, handle and use FCM in virtual machines which are attached to storage subsystems (SVC, ...) with full functionality as on physical machines.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

enhancements to allocation manager to help alleviate region request/relinquish thrashing

When meta regions are small and fragmented and the node count is large a situation can occur in which clients start thrashing the allocation manager requesting and relinquishing meta regions. In our environment this seems to occur most often when ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 active data in client interface

Need an easy way for the client to identify the amount of 'active data' maintained in a TS7700 cluster. Today this metric can only be obtained via BVIR/VEHSTATS and this creates a huge overhead if not implemented to get this metric. It would be mu...
almost 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Not under consideration

Remote web client for BA client

Evidently, the TSM BA client functionality is limited when launched remotely. When using the BA client locally on Linux or Windows you can edit client preferences. When launching the BA client remotely, client preferences are not available. The on...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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