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Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Increase the maximum number of independent filesets per filesystem

Currently we are hovering under 1000 independent file sets within the user file system. Even taking into account file sets that are removed when users leave site it is very possible that we will hit the limit within a year.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

TS4500 improve Remote Authentication (LDAP, RACF) support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor authentication is a major component of security policies in many companies. TS4500 supports remote authentication with MFA when used with Duo (authentication proxy). However, this client has already invested in an MFA infrastructure t...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Support 256 or more cluster watches per cluster.

Only 25 cluster watches are supported per cluster, but we need 256 at least.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Need a way to move clients between vsnap servers to load balance use of vsnaps

Customer would like the ability to move clients from one vsnap to another to help balance the use of the vsnap servers in their environment.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add product_id to display on gui Pools, Internal storage

I am looking at this site: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/873170 There is nothing there to tie my drives on my FS7300 running 8.5.0.10 to anything on that site. I am trying to use the GUI. I go into Pools, Internal Storage. I even tried to...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

SPP monitoring for Ticket

SPP failure alerts support for monitoring tools
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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