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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...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Functionality already exists

Encryption in flight between Global Data Platform (CNSA) PODs using NIST and FIPs compliance for remote filesystem mounts

Customer is a bank and wants secure communications between all nodes within the storage cluster which is possible but also between any clusters that remote mount and between the storage cluster and the Remote cluster. Because Storage Fusion with G...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Storage Insights

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Storage Insights. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches in Storage Insights

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Storage Insights as not monitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Storage Insights can monitor. Add an option to supp...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Spectrum Control as unmonitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Spectrum Control can monitor. Add an option to suppre...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Customize At Risk intervals to reflect real environment

In order to have the Operations Center reflect correctly the risk status of Spectrum Protect nodes we should be able to inform accuratedly when the backups really run. Some clients, for instance, have nodes that run backups only on weekdays, so th...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

GUI snapshot deletion from oldest to newest

Due to inode manipulation, it is a best practice and less effort to the GPFS to delete the oldest snapshot first. However, when doing the snapshot deletion manually, in the client using the GUI, it should also order it from oldest to newest.This w...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Protect STGPool type=local mounts tape before checking if data to be copied available

TSM Server protect STGPool mounts Carts without any payload.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Node custom information user field

A 'custom information' field is desirable where we could input information in any format we as a user wish. There is no custom field to use for node details. Only 'Contact' field is available and it is not sufficient.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

"Too Many Groups" - Need to increase the amount of GIDs for Scale Linux from the current limit of 1020.

if a person was a member of more than X groups, they couldn't access the GPFS filesystem. The customer opened a ticket about it with IBM. This would have been awhile ago – 2019 or so? I don't have the ticket number. Census has quite a few projects...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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