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lift the SUDO wrappers limitations

Allianz is requesting from IBM ESS product the following a) lift the SUDO wrappers limitations outlined in following statementsSudo wrappers are not supported on clusters where one or more of the nodes is running the Windows operating system.Sudo ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect LDAPUser Automated Password Updates

We require a LDAPUser interfaces with AD to obtain automated password update or maybe uses a token solution for regular automated password updates to the Spectrum Protect Servers.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

If primaray server hang, baclients tried to connect on secondary replication server and never come back on primary.

If primary replication server hang, clients tried to connect on the secondary and never come back on secondary until CAD service isrestarted. I think this should not append and clients should automaticly reconnect on primary. Also, this is for bac...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

TS4500 mini PC placement

I had the opportunity to watch the SSRs working on Call Home problem with the TS4500. I would like to suggest an engineering change on the IMC min PC physical placement for consideration. The IMC mini PC is placed at the bottom corner of the end f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

include tape pool in eeadm drive list

In eeadm drive list command, try to include options to print a more information, like: - Include a column with Node Name instead of Node ID for clarity- Include a column with the tape pool name of the tape mounted
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Use different option and configuration files in FlashCopyManager for TDP SQL

Since the TDP for SQL GUI has been deprecated and replaced by FlashCopyManager as a GUI, we are unable to select which "dsm.opt" and "tdpsql.cfg" files will be used to perform backups and restores i.e. we are forced to use the default ones: * "c:\...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Trigger Error 1195 A node has been missing for 30 minutes after any condition that has a node in a non functional state.

Generally the sequence we have seen is a 1196 warning email that a node has failed and then 30 minutes later an 1195 error indicating that the node has been gone for 30 minutes, which also generates an email, and a call home. What we have experien...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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