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IBM Spectrum Control

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    SELinux enable on RHEL for Spectrum Control server

    SELinux enable on RHEL server for Spectrum Control application. Currently Spectrum Control is working on SELinux disabled RHEL servers.
    3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    REPL for log collection supported by Spectrum Control

    RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in Spectrum Control would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    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

    Make reports that are saved into the report folder available via the GUI

    Many people don't login to the Control host when accessing Control, it's more common accessed via a web browser. If your environment hasn't been setup for email it makes accessing reports very difficult. Especially when you don’t want regular emai...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

    This is info is related to IBM Spectrum RTM tool license usage. Currently we could only able to monitor Lmstat and RLM license usage via RTM monitoring toll. Here my request is we need to be added all the types of license daemon services and need to be fetch license usages via RTM tool.

    Because currently I could not able to add this Lsdyna and Matlab license server information and could not able to fetch this license usage. In case if we add this option, then LSF administrator and uses will get more gain. Currently we could only ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Needs more information

    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 4 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 4 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...
    over 4 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 ...
    over 4 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 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

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