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OC Send reports monthly

Today OC can create and send reports daily or weekly, we would like to create and send report monthly also. We have seen the need at several customers to send monthly reports.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale GUI & API should support nested groups with LDAP/IPA authentication

Using nested groups (objectclass=nestedGroup) is a common feature of modern directories (e.g. Active Directory, FreeIPA/RedHat Identity Manager, and IBM Tivoli Directory Server ) and make it much easier to manage group memberships by adding a grou...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add Support for Hardware Load Balancers like the F5

We are a large bank and a large enterprise customer. Not all Open-Source software is supported. HA-Proxy is one of those not supported. But we still need to Load balance the GPFS GUI. This is a requirement when hosting Scale in OCP. We need to pla...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

CDM appliance self-monitoring

The functionality of the CDM processes themselves should be monitored on the appliance and the possibility to receive alerts when the main CDM program has problems.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

GPFS Windows support for zimon interfaces

Please provide capability for performance monitoring of GPFS Windows filesystems. Currently, GPFS Windows doesn't support zimon interfaces
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

DRP support for compressed volumes with Enhanced Stretch Cluster

Currently due to latency considerations on an Enhanced Stretch Cluster (SVC) we are unable to leverage DRP and use compressed and/or deduplicated volumes. 8-node SV1 enhanced stretch cluster, FC connected with X6-8 Brocade core switches and data c...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add new command to administrative CLI to pause a script

I suggest you add a command named "wait", the purpose of which would be to pause a script in TSM CLI. For example doing "wait 10" would pause a script for 10 seconds.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Network Virtualization Fusion

In telecommunications industry we cannot use standard virtualization with Fusion HCI. This will open us a new market segment
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

Build 3390 with a track size 64K or larger.

Currently 3390 has a track size around 54Kb. It would be great to have a track 64Kb to write larger records in VSAM. We have a need in our Medical Record System stores several procedure codes and we are always running out of space in the record. I...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

expose pagepool statistics

There seems to be no supported way, and in fact no way at all that I can find, to determine how effective the pagepool cache is. The official ways to determine an optimum pagepool size are 1) "try it and find out", and 2) "pay one of our consultan...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration