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IBM Spectrum Control

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User credentials(Username/password) visible in plain-text

As per Bank's IS policy/regulatory guidelines , sensitive information like username/password should to encrypted end to end. However in IBM products, SKLM(IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager) and IBM Spectrum Control., these sensitive info...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

Change of IBM Spectrum Control Common User after installation

We would like to have the functionality to change Spectrum Control Common User after the software is installed and running for several years.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Parameterization of the port (2443 default) used by the Spectrum Control for the configuration of Hitachi storages

I have to integrate a hitachi VSP G700 and G900 storage in Spectrum Control, but I have a problem because the default port 2443 of the hitachi Command Suite when the client installed it changed to 443 and 2443 port is not available. The request is...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

SRA agent should support "status" for HBAs

Right now the SRA (Storage Resource Agent) does not support a status for SAN HBAs.It should display a useful status for every HBA - preferably even every port on the HBA.Possible states: Online/Offline/Link-Up/Link-Down, etc.This should exist for ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Spectrum Control with DFSMS Storage Group Awareness

Request for Thin Provisioning Monitoring Interface that can report based on DFSMS (Storage Group). Please refer to RFE 137862 for additional detail.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Data Manager reports should recognize GPFS & VMFS as a cluster

The report Data Manager > Reporting > TPC-wide Storage Space > File System Space > By cluster does not show GPFS clusters or VMware ESX clusters as a cluster. They are shown under By Computer. As a result, the file space in /VMFS (ESX ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Request to develop VSC ability to blacklist SVC ports when automatic zoning. Prevent usage of SVC internode ports.

VSC is not able to restrict zoning for SVC ports dedicated for internode communication.The reason of this request is to ask IBM to develop some blacklist option for VSC automatic zoning in order to block the use of some selected SVC ports.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

Add maxdrain option to GM initial setup

Modify TPC-R GUI to set a desired GM drain time (maxdrain) value during initial session setup and allow for the value to be changed during Start H1-H2, you already allow the cginterval to be changed. Currently CSMCLI is the only way to change this...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Planned for future release

Allow grouping of statistics by DS8000 internal resources for performance reporting

Provide the ability to group and subset performance statistics for the DS8000 based on the internal configuration of the disk subsystem. Metrics which could be used for grouping and subsetting would be: - Rank statistics : device adapter, tier, DD...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

remote awareness of TPC-R sessions

When a storage device needs to be deleted from the standby server, the standby needs to be made active, and the device deleted, then returned to the standby state. The additional steps places risk on the TPC-R database. The standby database should...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration