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DS8000 GUI should show degraded status, if a redundand compounent is down or under rebuild

The DS8000 is built with a lot of redundancy in it. To prevent drive failures to cause a data loss situation, RAID-6 has been chosen for protection. Customer wants to get a simple information or status, if the machine is in a 'degraded status' by ...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

query mount enhancements

It would be very nice to have some enhancements to query mount like q mount LIBNAME--> show all mounts within the library q Mount LIBNAME showall=yes--> show all drives and mount state relating to the library
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSSC automated FTP offload of configuration data

System: IBM TS3000 System Console The IBM TSSC is being used as call home device and for event logging of TS3500 events from multiple libraries. An audit requirement is that we are making regular backups of the TSSC configuration information and t...
over 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

Provide ability to add custom logo in Discover UI header

This is a high priority RFE from Princeton per discussions directly with customer, offering management (Par Hettinga), and sales team (Brian Seery, et al).Suggested Solution Provide customer with ability to display their own graphic in header line...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

Operations Center - Completed Tasks Duration

Operations Center provides a user friendly GUI allowing TSM administrators to easily manage their TSM environment
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Several users connected to the IBM TS4300 tape library at the same time

Currently, only one person (on Operator Panel or Management GUI) can be logged in to the IBM TS4300 tape library at the same time. The customer would like several person to be able to connect to the library at the same time.
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Prevent reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES to kill restore tasks

Whenever a reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES finishes, restore of SQL data fails. Disabling reorg for this DB is not practical, since restore tasks are starting up 24/7, and the tsm admin does not know when. Some other tool must be present to prevent t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Mib walk for ESS

Provide snmp mib walk via polling without having to build snmpd.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

Use TDP4HANA without ssh connections

Please change installation routine for TDP4HANA so setup.sh script does not require ssh connection to be able to work. Ideally you want to have the option if you want to use ssh to run remote commands (on remote or local hosts) or is you want to r...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

Supported for LDAP Configuration user passwords to include dollar symbol

Spectrum Discover does not currently support the "$" symbol in the LDAP Admin user password when setting up LDAP authentication.We would prefer to include special characters in the password for security, we request "$" be allowed by Spectrum Disco...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release