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IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Log failed commands in auditlog or syslog

We are increasingly working with applications that "talk" to the SVC (and FlashSystems). In case of problems, we try to find out which commands these applications used.Commands that have failed are not logged, while this can be important informati...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

modify behavior of ldap authentication cache expiration

Currently ldap authentication cache expiration timeouts can be set via commandline:e.g.:chldap -authcacheminutes 60would set the authentication cache to be refreshed every hour. This is a fixed timer that starts to count when user logs in and woul...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Disk Drives/Hardware Components - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 2 Functionality already exists

Spectrum Protect server activity log to show detailed file restore and tape volume.

Hi Team, As a requirement for auditing we would like to have the server actlog show the file restore in detail and the tape volume it was restored. At the moment we have to restore from the client using restore/pick option and screen shot to...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists