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    Manufacturing Reset

    Client would like the ability to put the library back in a Manufacturing Factory Reset state with a CLI command rather than needing IBM Service to clear the existing configuration.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    ESS and Spectrum Scale GUI display min/max performance statistics

    Clients have a meeting with Markus R. for the feedback on the GUI, statistics charting and REST interface on Feb 13, 2020. One key requirement is to display the aggregation of performance statistics to track spikes bykeeping min/max values and not...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

    Customer-managed encryption keys with KJM support in GCP Buckets

    Why is it useful? Enabling CMEK support with KMS for GCP buckets provides Enhanced Security, Compliance Requirements, Key Rotation and Management, Data Sovereignty Who would benefit? Banking Customers, Customers with strict encryption requirements...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Well-known tcp ports are run out by TIME_WAIT state if recalls are distributed to cluster nodes

    Product: IBM Spectrum Protect for Space ManagementActor: User needs improvement of TCP port usage The product is bundled in our product IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition for space management of IBM Spectrum Scale. Description: In multi-nodes...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Future consideration

    Allow individual NDMP backups to be deleted with a new "delet nasbackup" command

    At present only the following methods can be used to delete NDMP backups in Spectrum Protect 1. Altering the copygroup settings for the management class in the policy domain which the NDMP backups are bound to and allowing expiration to run.2. Del...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add option to mmlsfileset to list only independent or dependent filesets

    mmlsfileset does not have a direct way to list dependedent or independent filesets. While is possible wrapping out the output of mmlsfileset -L/-Y to then pass it to mmcrsnapshot so only quiescence the IO once. I wonder if it is possible to add --...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Increase the number of maximum concurrent open SSH sessions per system

    Increase the number of maximum oncurrent open SSH sessions per system, to larger values, say 64. The current limit is 32. Reference:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1005424
    about 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    REST API as part of build test plan

    The REST API is not being tested prior to packaging new Operation Center builds. This was found in 8.1.4 because a module version was upgraded, but not updated in the server.xml file. No one in L1 nor L2 knew about this issue, but it was immediate...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

    Manage Automatic Move Container process

    Create an option to manage the time that the IBM Spectrum Protect server can start the Automatic Move Container processes.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    disable event actlog ANR2034

    I think it would be very nice if it was possible to disable the "ANR2034" from the actlog: disable event actlog ANR2034 I have a lot of them, and they dont give me ANY valuable information at all.
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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