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ELB not managed by TPC/R

For an effective and convenient management of a DS8000 replication environment, it would be very useful if TPC-R could manage ELB timeout for every LCU/LSS in a MM/MGM environment. In fact, a clear display of this parameter for the session (e.g. t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

VTS db2 reorg planning change

VTS db2 reorg is statically planned. Due to client activity changes, it comes a time where reorg is planned during high VTS activity and then does not end within the required amount of time. Reorg may not be effective until many weeks. As of today...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TVE Duplicate Backup Task

If a backup task is running and new one task is started on the same object using the GUI, it will cause the first backup to fail. The TVE system should indicate that a backup on the object is currently executing and skip or queue the second backup...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Full Active Directory Intergration

Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives

SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Control not capturing real time hardware failures from DS8800

we noticed our installed spectrum control isn't capturing real time failures from our enrolled IBM DS8k storage systems. cable and drive failures are not captured. kindly help optimize this so we can easily monitor our storages from the spectrum c...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

enhance security control in Kerberos based NFS to enable changes of Group / User during TGT Renewal time

Ganesha NFS uses Kerberos Tickets PAC to map user access control. This PAC ic valid as long as the Ticket is valid. If the user gets changed for any urgent reasons, this is realized only when TGT is invalidated and a new TGT is provided.In many ca...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to specify Node replication parameters on each node

To increase security in the node replication feature, we would like to have the option to specify the target TSM server IP, Port, Nodename and Nodepassword on individual nodes - instead of global settings, which requires server-to-server communica...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enabling the ESS storage with Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 for storage and processing based on CXL Fabric

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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