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    Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

    When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Enable bond1 (25GbE cards) with FDF (Lenovo nodes) to be used with VLANs and VMs

    We noticed that currently the 25 GbE cards are mostly used for management/provisioning purposes. This fact got us thinking if we could use said network cards for a testing/development environment. The fundamental idea would be enabling a Linux net...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

    mount and unmount events are not in the event log or sent to syslog servers

    The mount and demount activity from the home page of the TS4500 GUI should be reflected in the event log GUI and the syslog stream. Having to look at multiple locations to find activity details adds complexity during incident review/debugging.
    2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Add Transparent Cloud Tiering configuration and testing into the GUI or WUI

    Adding a TCT screen to the GUI could include features such as: Provide customer visible indicator of which TCT port is currently active. Add TCT port throughput to DS8K performance dashboard. View/Change TCT port configurations without using DSCLI...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Provide customer access to send ping commands down TCT interface links to test network connections without needing IBM to AOS into machine.

    Customers currently have no access to test network connections for TCT ports on the DS8K. Providing an interface to send ping and traceroute commands out the TCT ports to test networking will save loads of time interfacing with support to perform ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Customization of LDAP authentication in Spectrum Protect software

    When using Spectrum Protect Plus with LDAP authentication, the group parameter that is queried is hard coded (objectClass=group).This objectClass "group" is not present on all LDAP servers.Please allow customization of group attribute (like object...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Enhancment to replicate node commando to only replicate nodes in send or sendsync mode

    I try to create setups without and errors or warnings from housekeeping scripts.I also try to work with opt-out mechanisms as much as possible for customers that agree to use that backup philosophy. When you build a two-way replicating Spectrum Pr...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    To simplify the deployment of workloads in the cloud, IBM must improve the performance of the Scale command "mmaddnode" to allow for faster spin up/down of resources.

    Nodes in the cloud need to be spun up quickly as needed. Currently mmaddnode takes too long to add a significant number of nodes as it sequentially adds nodes to the cluster; not only that, but other commands like mmchlicense, mmchnodeclass, and m...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

    During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enhancements to the Operations Center reporting

    The company is building executive reports using Spectrum Protect Operations Center. They have over 6000 nodes doing backups in 19 Spectrum Protect servers and management would like to have a view of some statistics for the whole environment. Today...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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