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    Add command ts4500cli.jar like 'saveMountHistory'

    We need to keep track of tapes and their usage. Connecting to the tapelibrary every hour to download mount history is not a practical solution. This can be automated if the cli has a command like saveMountHistory where the last XXX mounts (or mayb...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

    Make fcp port power statistics available via CLI

    FCP port power going marginal is cauing performance issues at customers. Customers want to monitor for port power for proactive management instead of getting intermittant errors which happens when the power drops below good power levels.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    ECE edition 5.1.9 version support 256 storage node in one cluster

    as title, we need 5.1.9 version（LTS）support 256 Necessary
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

    Requesting RHEL9.x support for Spectrum Control

    Since you support RHEL7 (which is EoL now) and RHEL8 it would only be logic to also support RHEL9.x (which was released over 2 years ago). As we have tons of servers now migrating directly from RHEL7 to RHEL9 the support for it would be tremendous...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Functionality already exists

    Intergrated Message Console

    Being able to see message that emulate the z/OS console. The features is available on the z/Enterprise HMCs, and the DS8K.
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

    Reallowing non-root Spectrum Scale connections to Spectrum Discover after ESS security enhancements

    Spectrum Scale connections are considered the most effective way to provide metadata from IBM ESS storage to Spectrum Discover since both systems are IBM-based. The following IBM video guide outlines the steps for correctly set up Scale connection...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Functionality already exists

    Drive letter definition per Windows client.

    Currently Windows client mount drive letters can only be defined when a cluster is created. This is inflexible if a drive letter is not defined on a cluster and Windows clients need adding later. The only workaround is to create a remote cluster t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

    Allowing to mapping CES address to fixed interface

    The current design is alis CES ip to one of interface or the interface has the fixed ip in the same subnet. This is not flexibile and will wast of fixed ip. Customer hope to support static CES IP mapping that can assign CES IP to dedicated etherne...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Make usage time series information available via the Spectrum Scale API

    The Spectrum Scale Management GUI has time series information available for GPFS file systems and filesets. This information includes (but is not limited to) the change in block usage (i.e. how much space used) and change in inode usage. However t...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Functionality already exists

    Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

    This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

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