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Alert log to syslog

Hello Storwize developers,customer is our National Bank and they want to log also alert.log from storwize to syslog. They have auditing system, which checking all in syslog files and it is good idea redirect also alert log from Storwize to syslog ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

A new option to support FQDN Name in mmgetstate

This customer has general policy for hostname and hostname does include .(dot) and the characters after .(dot) is a main separator.A sample example is below;host1.poc1host1.poc2..host1.pocn So when we add this in a cluster, mmgetstate use just sho...
about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

FIPS 140-2 Certification needed for SVC/Storwize - to allow products to be bid in RFPs that require this

EMC, HDS, NetApp and others have made their products FIPS 140-2 CERTIFIED. Now that SVC/Virtualize/Storwize are delivering Encryption support - the support does not meet this requirement and there are currently no firm plans to do so. EMC/HDS/othe...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TSM banner for login via dsmadmc

We have an outstanding audit requirement to be able to define a login banner when logging into TSM via the dsmadmc CLI.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

PBMO1012-1546 TS7700 Messages are not following standards, making them difficult to trap via customer automation

Have the z/OS syslog message follow the common standard by either varying the suffix of the CBR3750 message or using multiple different message id's. At a minimum, include the impact code in the message text of CBR3750I so that filtering code for ...
over 9 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Delivered

SnapDiif support for NetApp Clustered Data Ontap

Hello, need to know when TSM backup will support Snapdiff functionality on NetApp Clustered Data Ontap 8.2 and later release.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

SVC Dedup

SVC Deduplication
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SAN Volume Controller

Requesting San Volume Controller to log valid or invalid logins to the system.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Cloning support for custom applications

Add support for cloning of custom application filesystems to support creating and refreshing development and test environments.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Faster format of volume

Hello developer, we found in some implementation that after some time that OS linux/aix/windows are able to find their FS/VG structures in assigned volumes when we reusing space in mdisks or better to say pool. We know that we can use Format befor...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered