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Role Based Access to SVC Administrative Functions

Since the SVC GUI is now calling CLI commands to the SVC cluster, it would be nice to have the ability on a user for user basis to restrict the commands that a user is able to execute on a command for command basis. This function could be part of ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement of SVC cache destage event logging

When a cache destage takes place in the SVC, an event is logged within the SVC. It is also possible to generate an alerting-mail by such an event. Requests here is to enhance this event message in the SVC, that it is possible to identify the volum...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

File permission - default at 666, change to 644

The following have permissions set (by default) to 666: /etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.crl/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.rdb/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.kdb Setting at 644 works for root user. It is possibl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

FlashSystem - Firmware upgrade automation by SVC

Hi,Our customer is running SVC with above 30 FlashSystem today. Each time he needs to upgrade the FlashSystems firmware he needs to do it for each FlashSystem separately which can be quite complicated to follow and specially to do it in given time...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

V7000 needs more flexible cache allocation options

The caching algorithm does not have enough flexibility in assigning cache to storage pools. I would like to see selectable options: 1) Current (equal percent across storage pools) 2) Percentage based on amount of storage in the storage pool vs ove...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 reports compared to ORACLE STK reports.

There are some kinds of reports from ORACLE STK solution, that customer frequently use to monitor VSM usage and management. They asked us to evaluate having similar reports to:1. Identify all logical tapes in use, and detail where we have replicat...
about 10 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Not under consideration

Full synthetic backups

To be able to create full synthetic backups without the need of performing full backups. Other competitors do it so why not TSM
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

SNMP Trap when NTP synchronisation failed

Customer requires that a SNMP trap is issued when the resynchronization with the NTP server can't be completed whatever the reason.Synchronisation of all DS888x is paramount for debugging purposes.
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Add missing return codes to dsmrc.h for Tivoli Storage Manager to assist customers in problem determination

Return codes such as 362 and 363 are not documented for example so PMRs must be opened for proper problem determination. More cost efficient for customers if documented at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGSG7_7.1.8/api/r_ret_code...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Optional short notification for Spectrum Virtualize produts

The Spectrum Virtualize family of products produce a length alert email, which is suitable for consumption by support. However, customers may choose to send critical alerts to some form of paging device. These devices may not be able to display th...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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