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DS8900F System Summary Export lacking key information

Trying to manage Safeguarded Copy capacity. It is possible, with the showckdvol command, to see how much Safeguarded Virtual capacity is defined and how much is used. RFE 115173 asks that some capacity information be exposed on the lsckdvol comman...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8880 needs to support nested LDAP groups

We have a large number of IBM DS8886's spread across our enterprise along with some older DS8870's. As of a couple of weeks ago they were all setup to use LDAP for user logon authentication. However, without our knowledge our administrators enable...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Deliver sha2 and md5 hash for software downloads

To ensure authenticity and immutability of software downloaded from IBM web- and ftp sites, a hash should be provided in a secure space or via email.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Delivered

Expanded audit logging on TS4300 library

The audit logging from the TS4300 does meet our minimum requirements. The user performing the action is missing along with additional information. Requirements are • Date and time of event (UTC formatted time)• User ID of person performing the act...
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Delivered

FCM for VMWare lacks support for parallel offload backups to TSM

Parallel backups in a very large environment are mandatory and flashcopy manager in a small vmware environment is really not needed.So in an large environment with one vmware datacenter and more than 2000 vms not being able to run parallel backup ...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

Reduce time to remove a failed disk in GPFS

Please can you look to reduce the time it takes to remove a disk from a GPFS file system in the particular scenario when the disk has already failed (and so is suspended or down) and the data on it has been evacuated onto other nodes as restripeOn...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

SP Operation Center backup success rate improvement

On the Operation Center, backup success rate is calculated by every node that is registered to the TSM Servers. However, this is not correct approach on every customer environment.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Exclude nodes from expiration

Currently expiration runs by node or domain or everything. Node should have option to be included or excluded in standard expiration.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Multi-tenancy Capability with SVC

We are building the accounts for the AIX team to use to start their jobs. We want to be able to lock down jobs/volumes to certain logins
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Gen 3 Storwize V7000 shows theoretical maximum capacity, instead of real one

product_id 10140648FRU_part_number 01YM583These Flashcore modules installed in Gen 3 Storwize v7000 units show 3 kinds of capacity figures:- Capacity: This figure shows a fixed 20 TB value, which is a theoretical value, that CAN be achieved throug...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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